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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Supervisor Tsukada tell the Woman she should eat for breakfast before work?
(a) A bagel.
(b) Noodles.
(c) Rice.
(d) Meat.

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

3. Who does the narrator decide the Woman in the Purple Skirt reminds her of at the start of the second chapter?
(a) Her old neighbor Mika.
(b) Her best friend, Mei.
(c) Her cousin Miyuki.
(d) Her schoolmate, Mei-chan.

4. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt fail to bring on her first day, which disappoints Supervisor Tsukada?
(a) Lunch.
(b) A water bottle.
(c) Money.
(d) A pen and notebook.

5. Who thwarts the narrator's efforts to introduce herself to the Woman while on her break one afternoon?
(a) The director.
(b) The hotel manager.
(c) Supervisor Hamomoto.
(d) Supervisor Tsukada.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the director condemn the staff for in the first meeting on the Woman's first day?

2. What did the narrator once do in a vain attempt to get to know the Woman in the Purple Skirt?

3. What does Supervisor Hamomoto tell the Woman in the Purple Skirt Supervisor Tachibana takes from work?

4. What did the narrator overhear Supervisor Tsukada telling the director about the Woman in the Purple Skirt on her first day?

5. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt eat on the same bench in the park?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways does the Woman in the Purple Skirt remind the narrator of her sister? What is the narrator's relationship with her sister?

2. Describe the training the director gives to the Woman in the Purple Skirt on her first day,

3. What type of information does the narrator keep track of regarding the Woman in the Purple Skirt?

4. What does the narrator leave on the Woman's park bench to assist in her job hunt?

5. What surprises the narrator about the Woman in the Purple Skirt after they begin to work together?

6. Who does the narrator follow at the start of the story? Where does she go each week? What does she buy? Where does she sit after?

7. How did the narrator once try to engage with the Woman in the Purple Skirt? What was the result?

8. How do the children at the park interact with the Woman in the Purple Skirt at the park? How does she react to them?

9. What does the narrator find after the Woman in the Purple Skirt leaves the park after eating the apple? What does she do with it?

10. Describe the first monthly staff meeting that the Woman attends. What is the focus? How does she behave?

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