Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quizzes

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
Haruki Murakami

Kazuo Ishiguru

Geoffrey Trousselot

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

Chinese

Japanese

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

Novel

Personal essay

TV series
4 How many parts is the book divided into?
Three

Two

Six

Four
5 In what country is the book set?
Korea

China

Canada

Japan
6 In what city is the book set?
Beijing

Tokyo

Hong Kong

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

Fumiko

Goro

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

Kazu

The author

An unnamed first-person narrator
9 In what year was Before the Coffee Gets Cold published in English?
2001

1990

2019

1984
10 What was Before the Coffee Gets Cold adapted from?
A stage play

A personal essay

A feature film

A TV series
11 Where do the events of the novel unfold?
A rooftop restaurant

A convenience store

A shopping mall atrium

A basement cafe
12 What is the name of the business that serves as the book's setting?
Funiculi Funicula

Watson's

Goro Goro

7-Eleven
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 another lover

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 another lover

He has been diagnosed with dementia
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 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?
Three

Two

One

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

Simile

Metaphor

Metonymy
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?
Three years

Thirteen years

One year

He is actually ten years her senior
21 Who pours the coffee for people who wish to time travel?
Kazu

Kei

Nagare

The ghost woman
22 Why does Fumiko have to wait for the ghost woman to go to the bathroom?
Fumiko is afraid of the ghost

The ghost flushing the toilet is what triggers the time vortex

The ghost curses anyone who tries to time travel

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?
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

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 admits he has a boyfriend

He asks her to wait three years for him to return

He agrees to not pursue his dream

He admits he has a wife in America

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by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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