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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the staff say about the agency director's homelife?
(a) He has a lot of wild parties.
(b) His wife bosses him around.
(c) He is very poor.
(d) He lives alone.

2. What did the narrator have to pay to repair after bumping into it one day?
(a) A butcher's display cabinet.
(b) A police car.
(c) A mailbox.
(d) A flower shop display window.

3. How early does the Woman in the Purple Skirt leave for the bus on the first day of her new job?
(a) 9:00 a.m.
(b) 6:00 a.m.
(c) 7:30 a.m.
(d) 4:45 a.m.

4. Considering all the advice Supervisor Tsukada gives to the Woman, how long does the narrator feel it will take her to complete training?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 2 days.
(d) 1 month.

5. What does the narrator do to help the Woman in the Purple Skirt find work?
(a) She brings her to a job fair.
(b) She leaves jobs magazines on her bench with certain positions highlighted.
(c) She tells her employer to hire the Woman.
(d) She fills out jobs applications on her behalf.

6. What wound does the narrator believe her sister may still have from the time they fought over the last bite of purin?
(a) A limp.
(b) Bite marks on her thumbs.
(c) A scar on her leg.
(d) A broken toe.

7. What does the narrator think people in the neighborhood would say if TV crews asked if they knew the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
(a) Who?
(b) Yes.
(c) Go away.
(d) No.

8. What had the director gone to school for prior to working at the hotel?
(a) Creative writing.
(b) Acting.
(c) Biology.
(d) Accounting.

9. Where does the Woman in the Purple Skirt go each week at the start of the story?
(a) The library.
(b) A bar.
(c) The community pool.
(d) A bakery.

10. What does the director say to the Woman in the Purple Skirt about the other supervisors?
(a) They are all highly intelligent.
(b) They are old terrible workers.
(c) They are all very efficient.
(d) They are all strange.

11. What does the Supervisor comment to the Woman about after she changes into her uniform on her first day of work?
(a) How unkempt her hair is.
(b) How overweight she is.
(c) How unusual she is.
(d) How thin she is.

12. What does the manager tell the staff they need to keep better tabs on during their meeting?
(a) How quickly they clean rooms.
(b) Their timecards.
(c) The length of lunch breaks.
(d) The complimentary items for guests.

13. What did the narrator once do in a vain attempt to get to know the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
(a) Sit near her on the bench.
(b) Bump into her.
(c) Deliver her mail.
(d) Call her and pretend she dialed the wrong number.

14. What does Supervisor Hamomoto tell the Woman in the Purple Skirt Supervisor Tachibana takes from work?
(a) Coffee and tea.
(b) Towels and bed linen.
(c) Leftover champagne.
(d) Candy.

15. Who asks the Woman in the Purple Skirt to introduce herself to the staff on her first day?
(a) The director.
(b) Supervisor Gondo.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Supervisor Tsukada.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has the Woman in the Purple Skirt been unemployed when she finally lands a job interview?

2. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt fail to bring on her first day, which disappoints Supervisor Tsukada?

3. Who does the narrator decide the Woman in the Purple Skirt reminds her of at the start of the second chapter?

4. How does the narrator know The Woman in the Purple Skirt?

5. Which family member does the narrator first think the Woman in the Purple Skirt remind her of?

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