Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
Geoffrey Trousselot

Kazuo Ishiguru

Haruki Murakami

Toshikazu Kawaguchi
2 In what language was Before the Coffee Gets Cold originally written?
Japanese

Korean

Chinese

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

Personal essay

TV series

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

Two

Four

Three
5 In what country is the book set?
Canada

Korea

China

Japan
6 In what city is the book set?
Kyoto

Hong Kong

Beijing

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

Fumiko

Goro

Nagare
8 Who narrates Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
An unnamed first-person narrator

Kazu

The author

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

1990

2019

1984
10 What was Before the Coffee Gets Cold adapted from?
A stage play

A feature film

A TV series

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

A rooftop restaurant

A shopping mall atrium

A convenience store
12 What is the name of the business that serves as the book's setting?
Watson's

7-Eleven

Funiculi Funicula

Goro Goro
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 has lost his job

He is leaving Fumiko to pursue his dream job in America

He has been diagnosed with dementia
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 wall clock chiming on the hour and half-hour

The cafe's doorbell

The cafe's phone

The convenience store's doorbell
17 How many clocks are on the walls of the cafe?
Three

Two

One

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

Simile

Foreshadowing

Metonymy
19 What is Fumiko's career in?
She directs a medical IT firm

She is an opera singer

She is a nurse

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

Three years

Thirteen years

He is actually ten years her senior
21 Who pours the coffee for people who wish to time travel?
The ghost woman

Kei

Kazu

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

Time travel is only possible from the ghost's seat
23 Who owns the cafe?
Nagare

Miki

Kazu

Fumiko
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

Nothing you do in the past can affect the present

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

The likelihood of death makes it extremely risky
25 What does Fumiko hear Goro say when she is in the past?
He agrees to not pursue his dream

He admits he has a boyfriend

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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