Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
Haruki Murakami

Geoffrey Trousselot

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Kazuo Ishiguru
2 In what language was Before the Coffee Gets Cold originally written?
French

Korean

Chinese

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

Personal essay

Short story

TV series
4 How many parts is the book divided into?
Three

Four

Two

Six
5 In what country is the book set?
Korea

Japan

China

Canada
6 In what city is the book set?
Tokyo

Hong Kong

Beijing

Kyoto
7 Who is the protagonist of the book's first part?
Hirai

Nagare

Goro

Fumiko
8 Who narrates Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
Kazu

The author

An unnamed third-person narrator

An unnamed first-person narrator
9 In what year was Before the Coffee Gets Cold published in English?
2001

1984

2019

1990
10 What was Before the Coffee Gets Cold adapted from?
A feature film

A personal essay

A TV series

A stage play
11 Where do the events of the novel unfold?
A basement cafe

A shopping mall atrium

A convenience store

A rooftop restaurant
12 What is the name of the business that serves as the book's setting?
7-Eleven

Goro Goro

Funiculi Funicula

Watson's
13 What does Fumiko expect Goro's "serious conversation" to be about?
She believes he will ask her to marry him

She believes he has another lover

She believes he has gotten a raise

She believes he has cancer
14 What is the actual substance of Goro's "serious conversation"?
He has another lover

He is leaving Fumiko to pursue his dream job in America

He has been diagnosed with dementia

He has lost his job
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 convenience store's doorbell

The cafe's doorbell

The wall clock chiming on the hour and half-hour

The cafe's phone
17 How many clocks are on the walls of the cafe?
Two

Three

Fifty

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

Foreshadowing

Metonymy

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

One year

Thirteen years
21 Who pours the coffee for people who wish to time travel?
Kei

Kazu

Nagare

The ghost woman
22 Why does Fumiko have to wait for the ghost woman to go to the bathroom?
Time travel is only possible from the ghost's seat

The ghost curses anyone who tries to time travel

The ghost flushing the toilet is what triggers the time vortex

Fumiko is afraid of the ghost
23 Who owns the cafe?
Fumiko

Nagare

Miki

Kazu
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

The likelihood of death makes it extremely risky

Nothing you do in the past can affect the present

Your clothes don't travel with you, leading to embarrassment in the past
25 What does Fumiko hear Goro say when she is in the past?
He admits he has a boyfriend

He agrees to not pursue his dream

He asks her to wait three years for him to return

He admits he has a wife in America

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by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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