Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
Geoffrey Trousselot

Haruki Murakami

Kazuo Ishiguru

Toshikazu Kawaguchi
2 In what language was Before the Coffee Gets Cold originally written?
Japanese

French

Chinese

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

Short story

TV series

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

Two

Four

Six
5 In what country is the book set?
Canada

Japan

Korea

China
6 In what city is the book set?
Kyoto

Beijing

Hong Kong

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

Nagare

Goro

Fumiko
8 Who narrates Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
An unnamed first-person narrator

The author

An unnamed third-person narrator

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

2001

1990

2019
10 What was Before the Coffee Gets Cold adapted from?
A personal essay

A TV series

A stage play

A feature film
11 Where do the events of the novel unfold?
A shopping mall atrium

A convenience store

A basement cafe

A rooftop restaurant
12 What is the name of the business that serves as the book's setting?
7-Eleven

Funiculi Funicula

Goro Goro

Watson's
13 What does Fumiko expect Goro's "serious conversation" to be about?
She believes he has gotten a raise

She believes he has cancer

She believes he has another lover

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?
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 cafe's phone

The cafe's doorbell

The wall clock chiming on the hour and half-hour

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

One

Fifty

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

Simile

Metonymy

Foreshadowing
19 What is Fumiko's career in?
She is an opera singer

She is a nurse

She directs a medical IT firm

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

The ghost woman

Kei

Kazu
22 Why does Fumiko have to wait for the ghost woman to go to the bathroom?
Time travel is only possible from the ghost's seat

The ghost curses anyone who tries to time travel

Fumiko is afraid of the ghost

The ghost flushing the toilet is what triggers the time vortex
23 Who owns the cafe?
Nagare

Fumiko

Miki

Kazu
24 What rule about time travel in the cafe leads people to dismiss it as futile?
Your clothes don't travel with you, leading to embarrassment in the past

Nothing you do in the past can affect the present

The likelihood of death makes it extremely risky

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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by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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