Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

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

French

Japanese

Korean
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?

Four

Three

Two

Six
5 In what country is the book set?

Canada

China

Korea

Japan
6 In what city is the book set?

Beijing

Kyoto

Tokyo

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?

The author

An unnamed third-person narrator

Kazu

An unnamed first-person narrator
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 convenience store

A rooftop restaurant

A basement cafe

A shopping mall atrium
12 What is the name of the business that serves as the book's setting?

Goro Goro

Watson's

7-Eleven

Funiculi Funicula
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 lost his job

He has been diagnosed with dementia
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 cafe's phone

The convenience store's doorbell

The cafe's doorbell

The wall clock chiming on the hour and half-hour
17 How many clocks are on the walls of the cafe?

Fifty

Three

Two

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

Foreshadowing

Simile

Metaphor

Metonymy
19 What is Fumiko's career in?

She is an opera singer

She is a nurse

She directs a medical IT firm

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

Three years

He is actually ten years her senior

Thirteen years

One year
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?

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

Fumiko

Nagare
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 admits he has a wife in America

He asks her to wait three years for him to return

He admits he has a boyfriend

He agrees to not pursue his dream

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by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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