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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 does Mr. Someya suggest Yamae is paranoid about?

2. In "The Bus Advertising Job," who usually keeps to themselves?

3. What job does the narrator get after the surveillance job?

4. What is Yamae often receiving?

5. In "The Bus Advertising Job," how does the narrator get to work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Mr. Someya?

2. Who is Mrs. Oizumi?

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

4. In what way does Yamae influence the narrator?

5. What makes the narrator suspicious of Ms. Eriguchi?

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

7. What project is Yamae working on?

8. What is the first job the narrator has in the book?

9. What reason does the narrator give Mrs. Masakado for leaving her last job?

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

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 narrator's relationships to other people in the book. How does the narrator present herself to others? How does she wish to be perceived?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you explore the narrator's cracker packet job. What does she make of this job? Is her experience an overall positive or negative one?

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