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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 175 - 216 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Woman in the Purple Skirt eat for breakfast on her first day of work?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Cornflakes.
(c) Rice.
(d) A cream bun.

2. What does the director help the Woman in the Purple Skirt with during lunch on her first day of work?
(a) Voice training.
(b) Organizing her cart.
(c) Tracking complementary items.
(d) Time management.

3. Where does the girl in the park say her parents purchased the items she has at home with the hotel logo on it?
(a) The hotel.
(b) A strange woman.
(c) A department store.
(d) The local bazaar.

4. Where does the narrator go to eat a cream bun at the end of the novel?
(a) A hotel room.
(b) The Woman in the Purple Skirt's Exclusively Reserved Seat.
(c) The director's house.
(d) The Woman in the Purple Skirt's apartment stoop.

5. What does the narrator do one day when a salesman sits on the Woman in the Purple Skirt's Exclusively Reserved Seat?
(a) Sits very close to him until he moves.
(b) Offers her seat to the Woman when she arrives.
(c) Gives him a dirty look.
(d) Tells him he needs to move.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the staff discuss after the monthly meeting when they gossip about the director and the Woman's affair?

2. Who do the staff call "a straitlaced prude" (173) when the Woman in the Purple Skirt considers checking her bottle for alcohol?

3. What information does the narrator keep in her diary regarding the director and the Woman in the Purple Skirt?

4. What rumor did the narrator hear about Arishima-san after she left school?

5. What does the narrator call the bench the Woman in the Purple Skirt sits on each time she goes to the park?

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