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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. In "The Bus Advertising Job," who announces they are leaving the company at lunch one day?

2. Who rarely leaves home in "The Surveillance Job"?

3. What does Mr. Someya suggest Yamae is paranoid about?

4. What reason does the narrator give Mrs. Masakado for leaving the surveillance job?

5. Why does the narrator receive a bonus?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what way does Yamae influence the narrator?

3. What makes the narrator suspicious of Ms. Eriguchi?

4. Why is Yamae being surveilled?

5. Who is Ms. Eriguchi?

6. Who is Mr. Someya?

7. What is the Albatross?

8. What job does the narrator get after the surveillance job?

9. Who is Yamae Yamamoto?

10. What reason does the narrator give Mrs. Masakado for leaving her last job?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay describing the author’s writing style. Use examples from the text as evidence for your argument.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explore narrator's relationships to other people in the book. How does the narrator present herself to others? How does she wish to be perceived?

Essay Topic 3

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

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