Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Before the Coffee Gets Cold?

Geoffrey Trousselot

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Kazuo Ishiguru

Haruki Murakami
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

TV series

Personal essay

Novel
4 How many parts is the book divided into?

Two

Four

Six

Three
5 In what country is the book set?

Canada

China

Japan

Korea
6 In what city is the book set?

Tokyo

Beijing

Kyoto

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

Nagare

Hirai

Goro

Fumiko
8 Who narrates Before the Coffee Gets Cold?

An unnamed first-person narrator

Kazu

An unnamed third-person narrator

The author
9 In what year was Before the Coffee Gets Cold published in English?

2019

2001

1984

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 convenience store

A basement cafe

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

7-Eleven

Goro Goro

Watson's

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

She believes he has another lover

She believes he will ask her to marry him

She believes he has gotten a raise

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

He has another lover

He has been diagnosed with dementia

He is leaving Fumiko to pursue his dream job in America

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 convenience store's doorbell

The wall clock chiming on the hour and half-hour

The cafe's doorbell

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

Three

Two

Fifty

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

Metonymy

Foreshadowing

Simile

Metaphor
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?

One year

Three years

He is actually ten years her senior

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

Nagare

Kei

The ghost woman

Kazu
22 Why does Fumiko have to wait for the ghost woman to go to the bathroom?

Fumiko is afraid of the ghost

The ghost curses anyone who tries to time travel

The ghost flushing the toilet is what triggers the time vortex

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

Nagare

Miki

Fumiko

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 asks her to wait three years for him to return

He agrees to not pursue his dream

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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