Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
Haruki Murakami

Kazuo Ishiguru

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Geoffrey Trousselot
2 In what language was Before the Coffee Gets Cold originally written?
Chinese

French

Korean

Japanese
3 What form does Before the Coffee Gets Cold take?
Personal essay

Novel

TV series

Short story
4 How many parts is the book divided into?
Two

Six

Four

Three
5 In what country is the book set?
Canada

Korea

China

Japan
6 In what city is the book set?
Kyoto

Beijing

Hong Kong

Tokyo
7 Who is the protagonist of the book's first part?
Nagare

Fumiko

Goro

Hirai
8 Who narrates Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
An unnamed third-person narrator

The author

An unnamed first-person narrator

Kazu
9 In what year was Before the Coffee Gets Cold published in English?
1990

1984

2019

2001
10 What was Before the Coffee Gets Cold adapted from?
A TV series

A personal essay

A stage play

A feature film
11 Where do the events of the novel unfold?
A convenience store

A shopping mall atrium

A rooftop restaurant

A basement cafe
12 What is the name of the business that serves as the book's setting?
Goro Goro

Funiculi Funicula

7-Eleven

Watson's
13 What does Fumiko expect Goro's "serious conversation" to be about?
She believes he has gotten a raise

She believes he has cancer

She believes he has another lover

She believes he will ask her to marry him
14 What is the actual substance of Goro's "serious conversation"?
He has been diagnosed with dementia

He is leaving Fumiko to pursue his dream job in America

He has lost his job

He has another lover
15 What does "sepia hue" mean?
Reddish-brown color

Bright yellow color

Black and white

None of these
16 What is the source of the "CLANG-DONG" sound that often interrupts the narrative?
The cafe's phone

The wall clock chiming on the hour and half-hour

The convenience store's doorbell

The cafe's doorbell
17 How many clocks are on the walls of the cafe?
Fifty

Three

Two

One
18 "Her upper body flopped ... like a deflating balloon" is an example of what literary device?
Foreshadowing

Metonymy

Simile

Metaphor
19 What is Fumiko's career in?
She is an opera singer

She directs a medical IT firm

She is a nurse

None of these
20 How much younger is Goro than Fumiko?
He is actually ten years her senior

Three years

Thirteen years

One year
21 Who pours the coffee for people who wish to time travel?
Kei

Nagare

Kazu

The ghost woman
22 Why does Fumiko have to wait for the ghost woman to go to the bathroom?
Fumiko is afraid of the ghost

The ghost curses anyone who tries to time travel

Time travel is only possible from the ghost's seat

The ghost flushing the toilet is what triggers the time vortex
23 Who owns the cafe?
Kazu

Nagare

Fumiko

Miki
24 What rule about time travel in the cafe leads people to dismiss it as futile?
You can't speak once you're in the past

Your clothes don't travel with you, leading to embarrassment in the past

Nothing you do in the past can affect the present

The likelihood of death makes it extremely risky
25 What does Fumiko hear Goro say when she is in the past?
He asks her to wait three years for him to return

He admits he has a wife in America

He admits he has a boyfriend

He agrees to not pursue his dream

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by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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