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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How do the staff behave around the Woman when she wears her perfume?
2. What does the director say is "very promising" (99) when they chat the day the Woman came in to work late?
3. What is the topic of the first monthly meeting after the narrator saw the director and the Woman on a date?
4. What was the Woman in the Purple Skirt carrying when she and the narrator collided outside of the elevator?
5. What does the Woman tell the children about the hotel the day after she completes her training?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator know the Woman in the Purple Skirt met the director on her day off from work?
2. What does the director discuss at the second monthly meeting the Woman attends? What does he task supervisors with and how do they feel about this?
3. What rumor does the narrator overhear about the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
4. Describe the scene when the Woman shares a box of chocolates with the children at the park. What do they discuss?
5. What happens when Supervisor Tsukada confronts the Woman in the Purple Skirt about the stolen hotel items?
6. What leads the Woman to leave the hotel and never return?
7. What do the Woman and director do at the bus stop after the bar? What does the director learn he lost? What happened to this item?
8. Why does the narrator go to work on her day off on the Woman's third day of work? Why does she return home?
9. Describe the conversation between the Woman and the director when she apologizes to him for being so late to work the morning of the bus incident.
10. What happens when the staff learn someone is selling hotel items at the local bazaar? Who do they think is behind it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a detailed analysis of tone in Imamura's The Woman in the Purple Skirt. Include whether the tone changes or remains the same. If it changes, include details on when, why and whether this change is effective.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring the significance of the children in the park in The Woman in the Purple Skirt. What do they represent? How do they develop the narrative?
Essay Topic 3
Write an analysis of the theme of invisibility in The Woman in the Purple Skirt. How is this theme expressed in the novel and why is it important?
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