Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
Geoffrey Trousselot

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Haruki Murakami

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

Chinese

Japanese

French
3 What form does Before the Coffee Gets Cold take?
TV series

Short story

Personal essay

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

Four

Two

Six
5 In what country is the book set?
Canada

Korea

China

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?
Goro

Nagare

Hirai

Fumiko
8 Who narrates Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
An unnamed first-person narrator

Kazu

An unnamed third-person narrator

The author
9 In what year was Before the Coffee Gets Cold published in English?
1984

1990

2019

2001
10 What was Before the Coffee Gets Cold adapted from?
A feature film

A stage play

A TV series

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

A shopping mall atrium

A basement cafe

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 will ask her to marry him

She believes he has gotten a raise

She believes he has cancer

She believes he has another lover
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 another lover

He has been diagnosed with dementia
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 wall clock chiming on the hour and half-hour

The cafe's phone

The convenience store's doorbell

The cafe'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?
Metonymy

Simile

Foreshadowing

Metaphor
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?
Nagare

The ghost woman

Kazu

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

The ghost curses anyone who tries to time travel

Fumiko is afraid of the ghost

Time travel is only possible from the ghost's seat
23 Who owns the cafe?
Miki

Fumiko

Kazu

Nagare
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

The likelihood of death makes it extremely risky

You can't speak once you're in the past

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 asks her to wait three years for him to return

He admits he has a wife in America

He agrees to not pursue his dream

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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