Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Haruki Murakami

Geoffrey Trousselot

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

Japanese

Korean

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

Personal essay

TV series

Novel
4 How many parts is the book divided into?
Three

Two

Six

Four
5 In what country is the book set?
Japan

China

Korea

Canada
6 In what city is the book set?
Tokyo

Kyoto

Beijing

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

Fumiko

Nagare

Hirai
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

2019

1990

1984
10 What was Before the Coffee Gets Cold adapted from?
A personal essay

A stage play

A TV series

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

A convenience store

A shopping mall atrium

A rooftop restaurant
12 What is the name of the business that serves as the book's setting?
Funiculi Funicula

Goro Goro

7-Eleven

Watson's
13 What does Fumiko expect Goro's "serious conversation" to be about?
She believes he has cancer

She believes he will ask her to marry him

She believes he has gotten a raise

She believes he has another lover
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?
Bright yellow color

Reddish-brown color

Black and white

None of these
16 What is the source of the "CLANG-DONG" sound that often interrupts the narrative?
The cafe's doorbell

The wall clock chiming on the hour and half-hour

The cafe's phone

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

One

Two

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

Metaphor

Simile

Metonymy
19 What is Fumiko's career in?
She is a nurse

She is an opera singer

She directs a medical IT firm

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

One year

He is actually ten years her senior

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?
Fumiko is afraid of the ghost

The ghost curses anyone who tries to time travel

Time travel is only possible from the ghost's seat

The ghost flushing the toilet is what triggers the time vortex
23 Who owns the cafe?
Kazu

Miki

Nagare

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

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

The likelihood of death makes it extremely risky

Nothing you do in the past can affect the present
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 boyfriend

He agrees to not pursue his dream

He admits he has a wife in America

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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