Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

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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

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?

Four

Six

Two

Three
5 In what country is the book set?

Korea

Canada

Japan

China
6 In what city is the book set?

Beijing

Tokyo

Kyoto

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

Nagare

Hirai

Goro

Fumiko
8 Who narrates Before the Coffee Gets Cold?

An unnamed first-person narrator

An unnamed third-person narrator

Kazu

The author
9 In what year was Before the Coffee Gets Cold published in English?

1984

2001

1990

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

A stage play

A TV series

A personal essay

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

A basement cafe

A shopping mall atrium

A rooftop restaurant

A convenience store
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 has gotten a raise

She believes he has another lover

She believes he will ask her to marry him

She believes he has cancer
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?

Black and white

Reddish-brown color

Bright yellow 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 wall clock chiming on the hour and half-hour

The cafe's doorbell

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

Two

Three

One

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

Foreshadowing

Simile

Metonymy

Metaphor
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

He is actually ten years her senior

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

Kazu

The ghost woman

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

Time travel is only possible from the ghost's seat

The ghost curses anyone who tries to time travel

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

Nagare

Miki

Fumiko

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

Nothing you do in the past can affect the present

The likelihood of death makes it extremely risky

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 admits he has a wife in America

He agrees to not pursue his dream

He asks her to wait three years for him to return

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