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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 the narrator hear the staff saying about the Woman in the Purple Skirt after she had been working there for awhile?
(a) She looks healthier and happier.
(b) She has lost too much weight.
(c) She is the worst employee yet.
(d) She has become withdrawn.

2. What do the children ask the Woman for after she shares her box of chocolates with them?
(a) Snacks from the minibar.
(b) A hotel uniform.
(c) Some towels with the hotel logo.
(d) An empty box of chocolates.

3. What do the staff members begin to think the Woman in the Purple Skirt is doing with the hotel amenities?
(a) Giving them as gifts to family members.
(b) Selling them at the school bazaar.
(c) Hoarding them in her apartment.
(d) Donating them to a homeless shelter.

4. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt tell Supervisor Tachibana she knows she steals from work?
(a) Shampoo.
(b) Chocolates.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Champagne.

5. What is the Woman in the Purple Skirt's first stop on her day off?
(a) The post office.
(b) A coffee shop.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) The library.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt bring to the children in the park after she completed her training at work?

2. What does the narrator notice about the Woman in the Purple Skirt when she leaves her apartment the day they both have off from work?

3. How does the director respond when the Woman apologizes for any trouble she caused by being so late that day?

4. What does the Woman say to Supervisor Tsukada about the hotel shampoo, which offends Tsukada?

5. What do the director and the Woman discuss on the bus after their date?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator imagine would happen if passersby knew they had passed the Woman in the Purple Skirt and that she was with a man?

2. What does the Woman discover when she sniffs the other staff members' water bottles? Does she check the narrator's? Why or why not?

3. What is unusual about the Woman in the Purple Skirt the evening the narrator sees her in the shopping district late after her third day of work?

4. How does the Woman find out that somebody is selling hotel amenities at the local bazaar?

5. Where do the director and the Woman go on their date after the coffee shop? Which place do they stay the longest?

6. Why is the narrator annoyed with the way the Woman explains the bus incident to the director and others? What does she imagine doing the next time she has a chance?

7. What do the staff say the morning the Woman in the Purple Skirt is late for work? What does Supervisor Tsukada tell them they had done with the Woman a couple nights before?

8. How does the narrator come to memorize the director's home phone number?

9. What happens when Supervisor Tsukada confronts the Woman in the Purple Skirt about the stolen hotel items?

10. How does the narrator know the Woman in the Purple Skirt met the director on her day off from work?

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