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?

Chinese

French

Japanese

Korean
3 What form does Before the Coffee Gets Cold take?

TV series

Short story

Novel

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

Two

Six

Three

Four
5 In what country is the book set?

Japan

China

Canada

Korea
6 In what city is the book set?

Kyoto

Hong Kong

Beijing

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

Hirai

Goro

Fumiko

Nagare
8 Who narrates Before the Coffee Gets Cold?

Kazu

An unnamed first-person narrator

The author

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

2001

1990

1984

2019
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 rooftop restaurant

A shopping mall atrium
12 What is the name of the business that serves as the book's setting?

7-Eleven

Funiculi Funicula

Watson's

Goro Goro
13 What does Fumiko expect Goro's "serious conversation" to be about?

She believes he has gotten a raise

She believes he will ask her to marry him

She believes he has cancer

She believes he has another lover
14 What is the actual substance of Goro's "serious conversation"?

He has been diagnosed with dementia

He is leaving Fumiko to pursue his dream job in America

He has lost his job

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 doorbell

The convenience store's doorbell

The cafe's phone
17 How many clocks are on the walls of the cafe?

One

Three

Two

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

Simile

Foreshadowing

Metaphor

Metonymy
19 What is Fumiko's career in?

She directs a medical IT firm

She is a nurse

She is an opera singer

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

Thirteen years

He is actually ten years her senior

One year

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

Nagare

Kazu

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

The ghost flushing the toilet is what triggers the time vortex

Fumiko is afraid of the ghost

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

Fumiko

Nagare

Kazu

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

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 agrees to not pursue his dream

He asks her to wait three years for him to return

He admits he has a boyfriend

He admits he has a wife in America

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by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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