Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
Kazuo Ishiguru

Haruki Murakami

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Geoffrey Trousselot
2 In what language was Before the Coffee Gets Cold originally written?
Japanese

French

Chinese

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

TV series

Novel

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

Six

Two

Three
5 In what country is the book set?
Canada

Korea

Japan

China
6 In what city is the book set?
Tokyo

Hong Kong

Kyoto

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

Hirai

Fumiko

Nagare
8 Who narrates Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
The author

An unnamed first-person narrator

Kazu

An unnamed third-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 TV series

A feature film

A stage play
11 Where do the events of the novel unfold?
A convenience store

A basement cafe

A shopping mall atrium

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

7-Eleven

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 has gotten a raise

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 lost his job

He has been diagnosed with dementia

He has another lover
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 phone

The wall clock chiming on the hour and half-hour

The convenience store's doorbell

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

One

Fifty

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

Metonymy

Foreshadowing

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

She directs a medical IT firm

She is an opera singer

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

Three years

One year

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

Kei

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

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

Nagare

Kazu

Miki
24 What rule about time travel in the cafe leads people to dismiss it as futile?
Your clothes don't travel with you, leading to embarrassment in the past

Nothing you do in the past can affect the present

The likelihood of death makes it extremely risky

You can't speak once you're in the past
25 What does Fumiko hear Goro say when she is in the past?
He admits he has a wife in America

He agrees to not pursue his dream

He admits he has a boyfriend

He asks her to wait three years for him to return

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by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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