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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. What do the director and the Woman in the Purple Skirt get at the when they get off of the bus?
2. What do the staff say to the Woman in the Purple Skirt the day she leaves work and never returns?
3. What does the narrator see a man doing to the Woman in the Purple Skirt on the bus one morning?
4. How do the staff behave around the Woman when she wears her perfume?
5. What does the hotel manager says will happen if someone confesses to stealing the hotel items?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the Woman discover when she sniffs the other staff members' water bottles? Does she check the narrator's? Why or why not?
2. What do the staff say the morning the Woman in the Purple Skirt is late for work? What does Supervisor Tsukada tell them they had done with the Woman a couple nights before?
3. 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.
4. What does the narrator imagine would happen if passersby knew they had passed the Woman in the Purple Skirt and that she was with a man?
5. Why is the narrator more likely to see the Woman at the park than at work after the Woman completes her training?
6. Describe the scene when the Woman shares a box of chocolates with the children at the park. What do they discuss?
7. Where do the director and the Woman go on their date after the coffee shop? Which place do they stay the longest?
8. What rumor does the narrator overhear about the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
9. In what ways does the staff treat the Woman very different than the narrator has ever been treated by them?
10. How does the narrator come to memorize the director's home phone number?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay exploring the narrator's attempts to get close to the Woman in the Purple Skirt. What plans does she come up with and how are these plans continuously thwarted?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing narrative voice in Imamura of The Woman in the Purple Skirt. Include thoughts on how the narrative voice of the story is effective in conveying the story’s themes of obsession and loneliness.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing Imamura's language style and word choice in The Woman in the Purple Skirt. What are some words that stand out to you and why? What words are repeated? What words are most impactful? Explain your answers.
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