Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Before the Coffee Gets Cold?

Kazuo Ishiguru

Geoffrey Trousselot

Haruki Murakami

Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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?

TV series

Short story

Novel

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

Four

Two

Three

Six
5 In what country is the book set?

Korea

China

Japan

Canada
6 In what city is the book set?

Kyoto

Beijing

Tokyo

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

Nagare

Hirai

Fumiko

Goro
8 Who narrates Before the Coffee Gets Cold?

The author

An unnamed first-person narrator

An unnamed third-person narrator

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

2019

2001

1984

1990
10 What was Before the Coffee Gets Cold adapted from?

A TV series

A feature film

A stage play

A personal essay
11 Where do the events of the novel unfold?

A shopping mall atrium

A rooftop restaurant

A basement cafe

A convenience store
12 What is the name of the business that serves as the book's setting?

Watson's

Goro Goro

7-Eleven

Funiculi Funicula
13 What does Fumiko expect Goro's "serious conversation" to be about?

She believes he has cancer

She believes he has gotten a raise

She believes he has another lover

She believes he will ask her to marry him
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 wall clock chiming on the hour and half-hour

The cafe's doorbell

The convenience store's doorbell

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

One

Three

Two

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

Metaphor

Metonymy

Foreshadowing

Simile
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

One year

He is actually ten years her senior

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

Nagare

Kazu

Kei

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 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
23 Who owns the cafe?

Miki

Fumiko

Nagare

Kazu
24 What rule about time travel in the cafe leads people to dismiss it as futile?

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

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 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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by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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