Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
Kazuo Ishiguru

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Haruki Murakami

Geoffrey Trousselot
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?
Short story

Novel

TV series

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

Three

Four

Six
5 In what country is the book set?
Canada

Japan

China

Korea
6 In what city is the book set?
Kyoto

Hong Kong

Tokyo

Beijing
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

An unnamed third-person narrator

The author

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

2019

2001

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

A personal essay

A stage play

A TV series
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?
Watson's

7-Eleven

Funiculi Funicula

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

She believes he has cancer

She believes he will ask her to marry him

She believes he has gotten a raise
14 What is the actual substance of Goro's "serious conversation"?
He has been diagnosed with dementia

He has lost his job

He has another lover

He is leaving Fumiko to pursue his dream job in America
15 What does "sepia hue" mean?
Black and white

Reddish-brown color

Bright yellow color

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?
Two

One

Three

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

Metonymy

Simile

Foreshadowing
19 What is Fumiko's career in?
She directs a medical IT firm

She is an opera singer

She is a nurse

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

He is actually ten years her senior

Thirteen years

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

Kazu

Nagare

Kei
22 Why does Fumiko have to wait for the ghost woman to go to the bathroom?
The ghost curses anyone who tries to time travel

Time travel is only possible from the ghost's seat

Fumiko is afraid of the ghost

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?
The likelihood of death makes it extremely risky

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
25 What does Fumiko hear Goro say when she is in the past?
He admits he has a boyfriend

He agrees to not pursue his dream

He admits he has a wife in America

He asks her to wait three years for him to return

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by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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