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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 time does Ms. Eriguchi go home every day?

2. Who records the narrator's ads in "The Bus Advertising Job"?

3. Who seems to always be at work in "The Surveillance Job"?

4. What is found in one of Yamae's DVD cases?

5. Who rarely leaves home in "The Surveillance Job"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator create a warning anouncement for a bus company?

2. What is the Albatross?

3. Who does the narrator see working at Hanabatake Ads at the end of the chapter?

4. What does the narrator decide at the end of the first chapter?

5. Who is Mr. Someya?

6. Who is Mrs. Oizumi?

7. What strange occurances does the narrator notice at her job?

8. Why does Yamae get a new coffee maker?

9. Who is Ms. Eriguchi?

10. In what way does Yamae influence the narrator?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore narrator's relationship to her coworkers. How does she behave within and understand these relationships?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explore work culture as it is depicted in the novel. What is the author positing about the nature of work/labor?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you explore the narrator's desire to obtain only jobs without substance. What is she avoiding in a deeper sense?

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