Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Haruki Murakami

Kazuo Ishiguru

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

French

Korean

Japanese
3 What form does Before the Coffee Gets Cold take?
Personal essay

TV series

Short story

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

Four

Three

Six
5 In what country is the book set?
Korea

Canada

China

Japan
6 In what city is the book set?
Kyoto

Hong Kong

Beijing

Tokyo
7 Who is the protagonist of the book's first part?
Goro

Nagare

Fumiko

Hirai
8 Who narrates Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
Kazu

An unnamed third-person narrator

The author

An unnamed first-person narrator
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 TV series

A personal essay

A feature film

A stage play
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

7-Eleven

Funiculi Funicula

Watson's
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 been diagnosed with dementia

He has lost his job

He is leaving Fumiko to pursue his dream job in America

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?
Three

Fifty

Two

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

Metaphor

Metonymy

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

Three years

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

The ghost woman

Nagare

Kazu
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

The ghost flushing the toilet is what triggers the time vortex

Fumiko is afraid of the ghost
23 Who owns the cafe?
Fumiko

Miki

Nagare

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

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

Nothing you do in the past can affect the present

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 admits he has a boyfriend

He admits he has a wife in America

He asks her to wait three years for him to return

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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