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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 is a local predator using to lure schoolchildren in "The Bus Advertising Job"?

2. Who has a farewell party at work in "The Bus Advertising Job"?

3. Who only works part-time at the office in "The Surveillance Job"?

4. What is Yamae often receiving?

5. At the beginning of the book, why did the narrator quit her last job?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Yamae get a new coffee maker?

2. What is the first job the narrator has in the book?

3. Who is Mr. Kazetani?

4. Who is Mrs. Oizumi?

5. What does Yamae do for a living?

6. Who is Mrs. Masakado?

7. In what way does Yamae influence the narrator?

8. Who is Ms. Eriguchi?

9. Who at the narrator's office has a young daughter?

10. What is found hidden in one of Yamae's DVD cases?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore the narrator's job in the hut in the big forest. What does she make of this job? Is her experience an overall positive or negative one?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explore the narrator's postering job. What does she make of this job? Is her experience an overall positive or negative one?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you explore the concept of burnout. Who experience burnout in the novel, and why?

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