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?
French

Korean

Japanese

Chinese
3 What form does Before the Coffee Gets Cold take?
TV series

Novel

Personal essay

Short story
4 How many parts is the book divided into?
Four

Six

Two

Three
5 In what country is the book set?
China

Korea

Canada

Japan
6 In what city is the book set?
Tokyo

Kyoto

Hong Kong

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

Nagare

Hirai

Goro
8 Who narrates Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
An unnamed third-person narrator

An unnamed first-person narrator

Kazu

The author
9 In what year was Before the Coffee Gets Cold published in English?
1990

1984

2001

2019
10 What was Before the Coffee Gets Cold adapted from?
A stage play

A TV series

A personal essay

A feature film
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?
Funiculi Funicula

Goro Goro

Watson's

7-Eleven
13 What does Fumiko expect Goro's "serious conversation" to be about?
She believes he has cancer

She believes he has another lover

She believes he will ask her to marry him

She believes he has gotten a raise
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 lost his job

He has been diagnosed with dementia
15 What does "sepia hue" mean?
Bright yellow color

Reddish-brown color

Black and white

None of these
16 What is the source of the "CLANG-DONG" sound that often interrupts the narrative?
The cafe's phone

The wall clock chiming on the hour and half-hour

The convenience store's doorbell

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

Fifty

Three

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

Metonymy

Metaphor

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

Kazu

Kei
22 Why does Fumiko have to wait for the ghost woman to go to the bathroom?
The ghost flushing the toilet is what triggers the time vortex

Time travel is only possible from the ghost's seat

Fumiko is afraid of the ghost

The ghost curses anyone who tries to time travel
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?
Nothing you do in the past can affect the present

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

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 admits he has a wife in America

He asks her to wait three years for him to return

He admits he has a boyfriend

He agrees to not pursue his dream

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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