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?
French

Korean

Japanese

Chinese
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

Four

Three

Six
5 In what country is the book set?
Japan

China

Canada

Korea
6 In what city is the book set?
Tokyo

Kyoto

Beijing

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

Goro

Hirai

Nagare
8 Who narrates Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
Kazu

The author

An unnamed third-person narrator

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 feature film

A stage play

A personal essay

A TV series
11 Where do the events of the novel unfold?
A basement cafe

A convenience store

A shopping mall atrium

A rooftop restaurant
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 gotten a raise

She believes he will ask her to marry him

She believes he has cancer
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 been diagnosed with dementia

He has another lover
15 What does "sepia hue" mean?
Black and white

Bright yellow color

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 phone

The cafe's doorbell

The convenience store's doorbell
17 How many clocks are on the walls of the cafe?
Fifty

Two

One

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 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?
Three years

He is actually ten years her senior

Thirteen years

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

Nagare

The ghost woman

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

The ghost flushing the toilet is what triggers the time vortex

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

Nagare

Fumiko

Miki
24 What rule about time travel in the cafe leads people to dismiss it as futile?
The likelihood of death makes it extremely risky

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

Nothing you do in the past can affect the present

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 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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by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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