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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 the nature of the narrator's new job in "The Cracker Packet Job"?

2. What does Mrs. Omae do when people knock on her door?

3. Who does the narrator take out to lunch on a whim?

4. Who cheers the narrator up at lunch when she feels discouraged in "The Cracker Packet Job"?

5. Who had been told they are lonely in "The Postering Job"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who vandalizes Mr. Monaga's window?

2. What is the narrator's first original series for her company in "The Cracker Packet Job"?

3. Who designs the posters the narrator hands out?

4. Who does the narrator take out for lunch in "The Postering Job"?

5. Who is Mr. Kiyota?

6. What is the narrator's new job after the cracker packet job?

7. Who is Mr. Monaga?

8. Where is the narrator's office located?

9. In "The Postering Job," what kind of job does the narrator tell Mrs. Masakdao she wants?

10. Who is Reiko?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write an essay in which you explore work culture as it is depicted in the novel. What is the author positing about the nature of work/labor?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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