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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the director and the Woman discuss on the bus after their date?
2. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt give to the director at the bus stop when he is drunk?
3. What do the staff members begin to think the Woman in the Purple Skirt is doing with the hotel amenities?
4. What does the narrator do when she arrives home after going to work on her day off?
5. What is the Woman in the Purple Skirt's first stop on her day off?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator come to memorize the director's home phone number?
2. What rumor does the narrator overhear about the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
3. Why is the narrator more likely to see the Woman at the park than at work after the Woman completes her training?
4. 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?
5. Describe the scene when the Woman shares a box of chocolates with the children at the park. What do they discuss?
6. Describe the conversation between the Woman and Supervisor Tsukada about the hotel shampoo and why the Woman does not use it.
7. Where do the director and the Woman go on their date after the coffee shop? Which place do they stay the longest?
8. In what ways does the staff treat the Woman very different than the narrator has ever been treated by them?
9. 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?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Away from the main character examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does she introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay describing the imagery used in The Woman in the Purple Skirt. Indicate examples of imagery in the text and identify possible meanings.
Essay Topic 3
Examine the use of dialogue vs the use of description. How is each used in the The Woman in the Purple Skirt? Explain what makes these uses effective or ineffective.
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