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

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

3. Which family member does the narrator first think the Woman in the Purple Skirt remind her of?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her aunt.

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

5. What rumor did the narrator hear about Arishima-san after she left school?
(a) She became a police officer.
(b) She joined a gang.
(c) She died.
(d) She moved to Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the director give to the Woman while she is on her break one day?

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

3. What does the director have the Woman in the Purple Skirt do at the start of their training on her first day?

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

5. What does the narrator do to try to make extra money?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the supervisors convince the Woman to steal an apple from work one day? What do they say when she wonders if Supervisor Gondo steals?

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

3. 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?

4. What happens at the park after the Woman sits with her apple after her first day of work?

5. 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?

6. How do the hotel employees feel about the Woman in the Purple Skirt when she first starts working there?

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

8. How does the director thwart the narrator's chance to speak to the Woman on her second day of work? What does he say to her? What does he give her?

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

10. Who is Mei-chan and how does she relate to the Woman in the Purple Skirt?

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