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?
Chinese

Japanese

Korean

French
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?
Three

Six

Two

Four
5 In what country is the book set?
Japan

Canada

China

Korea
6 In what city is the book set?
Tokyo

Hong Kong

Beijing

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

Nagare

Hirai

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?
1984

1990

2001

2019
10 What was Before the Coffee Gets Cold adapted from?
A personal essay

A stage play

A feature film

A TV series
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

Watson's

Goro Goro

Funiculi Funicula
13 What does Fumiko expect Goro's "serious conversation" to be about?
She believes he has another lover

She believes he will ask her to marry him

She believes he has cancer

She believes he has gotten a raise
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 lost his job

He has another lover
15 What does "sepia hue" mean?
Bright yellow color

Black and white

Reddish-brown color

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 phone

The wall clock chiming on the hour and half-hour

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

One

Three

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

Metaphor

Metonymy

Foreshadowing
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?
Thirteen years

He is actually ten years her senior

One year

Three years
21 Who pours the coffee for people who wish to time travel?
The ghost woman

Kazu

Nagare

Kei
22 Why does Fumiko have to wait for the ghost woman to go to the bathroom?
The ghost flushing the toilet is what triggers the time vortex

The ghost curses anyone who tries to time travel

Time travel is only possible from the ghost's seat

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

Fumiko

Nagare

Miki
24 What rule about time travel in the cafe leads people to dismiss it as futile?
The likelihood of death makes it extremely risky

Nothing you do in the past can affect the present

You can't speak once you're in the past

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 asks her to wait three years for him to return

He admits he has a wife in America

He agrees to not pursue his dream

He admits he has a boyfriend

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by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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