Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Kazuo Ishiguru

Haruki Murakami

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

Chinese

Korean

Japanese
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?
Three

Six

Two

Four
5 In what country is the book set?
Canada

China

Korea

Japan
6 In what city is the book set?
Hong Kong

Kyoto

Tokyo

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

Nagare

Goro

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

Kazu

An unnamed first-person narrator

An unnamed third-person narrator
9 In what year was Before the Coffee Gets Cold published in English?
1984

2001

2019

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

A feature film

A personal essay

A stage play
11 Where do the events of the novel unfold?
A rooftop restaurant

A shopping mall atrium

A convenience store

A basement cafe
12 What is the name of the business that serves as the book's setting?
Goro Goro

Funiculi Funicula

7-Eleven

Watson's
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 has cancer

She believes he will ask her to marry him
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 been diagnosed with dementia

He has lost his job
15 What does "sepia hue" mean?
Reddish-brown color

Bright yellow color

Black and white

None of these
16 What is the source of the "CLANG-DONG" sound that often interrupts the narrative?
The cafe's doorbell

The convenience store's doorbell

The cafe's phone

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

Two

One

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

Metaphor

Simile

Foreshadowing
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?
Thirteen years

Three years

He is actually ten years her senior

One year
21 Who pours the coffee for people who wish to time travel?
Kazu

Nagare

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?
Fumiko

Nagare

Miki

Kazu
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

Your clothes don't travel with you, leading to embarrassment in the past

You can't speak once you're in the past
25 What does Fumiko hear Goro say when she is in the past?
He agrees to not pursue his dream

He asks her to wait three years for him to return

He admits he has a wife in America

He admits he has a boyfriend

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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