Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Before the Coffee Gets Cold?

Kazuo Ishiguru

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Geoffrey Trousselot

Haruki Murakami
2 In what language was Before the Coffee Gets Cold originally written?

Japanese

French

Korean

Chinese
3 What form does Before the Coffee Gets Cold take?

TV series

Short story

Novel

Personal essay
4 How many parts is the book divided into?

Six

Three

Four

Two
5 In what country is the book set?

China

Japan

Korea

Canada
6 In what city is the book set?

Kyoto

Beijing

Tokyo

Hong Kong
7 Who is the protagonist of the book's first part?

Nagare

Goro

Fumiko

Hirai
8 Who narrates Before the Coffee Gets Cold?

An unnamed first-person narrator

The author

Kazu

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

1984

2019

1990

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

A feature film

A stage play

A TV series

A personal essay
11 Where do the events of the novel unfold?

A basement cafe

A rooftop restaurant

A convenience store

A shopping mall atrium
12 What is the name of the business that serves as the book's setting?

Funiculi Funicula

7-Eleven

Watson's

Goro Goro
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 will ask her to marry him

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

He is leaving Fumiko to pursue his dream job in America

He has been diagnosed with dementia

He has another lover

He has lost his job
15 What does "sepia hue" mean?

Reddish-brown color

Black and white

Bright yellow color

None of these
16 What is the source of the "CLANG-DONG" sound that often interrupts the narrative?

The cafe's doorbell

The convenience store's doorbell

The cafe's phone

The wall clock chiming on the hour and half-hour
17 How many clocks are on the walls of the cafe?

One

Two

Fifty

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

Metaphor

Simile

Metonymy

Foreshadowing
19 What is Fumiko's career in?

She is an opera singer

She is a nurse

She directs a medical IT firm

None of these
20 How much younger is Goro than Fumiko?

One year

Three years

He is actually ten years her senior

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

Kei

The ghost woman

Nagare

Kazu
22 Why does Fumiko have to wait for the ghost woman to go to the bathroom?

Fumiko is afraid of the ghost

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
23 Who owns the cafe?

Fumiko

Kazu

Miki

Nagare
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 admits he has a wife in America

He asks her to wait three years for him to return

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by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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