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?
Korean

Chinese

French

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

Personal essay

TV series

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

Three

Six

Four
5 In what country is the book set?
Canada

China

Korea

Japan
6 In what city is the book set?
Kyoto

Tokyo

Hong Kong

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

Fumiko

Hirai

Goro
8 Who narrates Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
Kazu

An unnamed third-person narrator

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 TV series

A feature film

A personal essay
11 Where do the events of the novel unfold?
A convenience store

A basement cafe

A rooftop restaurant

A shopping mall atrium
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 another lover

She believes he has cancer

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 been diagnosed with dementia

He has lost his job
15 What does "sepia hue" mean?
Reddish-brown color

Black and white

Bright yellow color

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?
Fifty

One

Three

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

Foreshadowing

Simile

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

Three years

He is actually ten years her senior

One year
21 Who pours the coffee for people who wish to time travel?
The ghost woman

Kei

Nagare

Kazu
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

The ghost curses anyone who tries to time travel

Fumiko is afraid of the ghost

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

Fumiko

Kazu

Nagare
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

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
25 What does Fumiko hear Goro say when she is in the past?
He admits he has a wife in America

He agrees to not pursue his dream

He asks her to wait three years for him to return

He admits he has a boyfriend

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by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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