Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?
New York

Philadelphia

Washington D.C.

Boston
2 Where do June and Athena initially meet?
A creative writing workshop

An artist's retreat

Their freshman year dorm

Their freshman year English class
3 When a novel goes to "auction," what is being sold?
The right to write the novel

The right to publish the novel

The right to make the novel into a film

The right to translate the novel
4 June is pitched to become the writer for a film about...?
Abortion in China

Her relationship with her mother

The Chinese Labour Corps

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
5 The Last Front is categorized as what kind of novel?
Science fiction

Literary fiction

Romance

Memoir
6 Why does June panic when she hears that Athena's mother has agreed to give Athena's drafts to an archival library?
She is afraid people will see the draft she plagiarized

She wants to protect Athena's legacy

She doesn't want her emails with Athena to become public

She doesn't want Athena's mother to be scrutinized
7 What word best describes how June feels towards Athena?
Love

Fear

Envy

Admiration
8 How does June monitor social media discourse?
She tracks mentions of certain key words

She obsessively searches for photos of herself

She goes on gossip forums

She hires an assistant to do it for her
9 Where does June come face-to-face with a relative of someone in the Chinese Labour Corps?
On the street in Chinatown

Doing a Q&A with the Chinese American Social Club

At a release for her second novel

At a summer writing workshop for AAPI writers
10 June decides to donate to an organization in order to "balance" her own feelings of guilt about exploiting Chinese culture. What organization does she choose?
The Chinese American Social Club

The AAPI Civic Engagement Fund

Welcome to Chinatown's Longevity Fund

The Asian American's Writers' Collective
11 June refers to herself and Athena as "vultures"; what does she mean by this metaphor?
Writers "feed" on each other's success

Writers exploit the pain of others, "feeding" on "death" like vultures

Writers are able to fly above their subject matter, surveying it from the sky and taking in the whole picture

Writers are always hungry for success and must "fly" very far in order to achieve it
12 What does June base Mother Witch on?
A draft she stole from Athena's apartment

A story one of her students wrote at a workshop

Her own life

A portion of Athena's first novel
13 Who helps June track down the IP address of @AthenaLiusGhost?
Tom

Daniella

Rory

Brett
14 What word best characterizes June's relationship with Candice?
Transactional

Antagonistic

Supportive

Exploitative
15 What job does June quit once she begins to earn money from selling The Last Front?
Tutoring

Publishing

Ghostwriting for novelists

Accounting
16 Who does June mistakenly think is Athena's ghost?
Diana Qiu

Candice

Geoff, Athena's ex-boyfriend

Adele Sparks-Sato
17 Whose perspective is Yellowface narrated from?
The perspective changes chapter-to-chapter

Omniscient narrator

June's

Athena's
18 What are some changes that Daniella makes to the manuscript?
Adding in un-translated Chinese phrases

Making the white characters more sympathetic

Emphasizing the postcolonial themes within it

Including more Chinese history
19 When is The Last Front set?
World War I

Present day

World War II

The 19th century
20 How does June feel at Athena's funeral?
Relieved

Paranoid

Out of place

Grief-stricken
21 What does Candice sell at the end of the novel?
The rights to a memoir

One of June's drafts

Her own historical novel

Athena's final manuscript
22 Adele Sparks-Sato criticizes The Last Front as an example of;
A "white savior" story

A "Chinese historiography"

A "postcolonial tragedy"

An "identity narrative"
23 Where does June post her first apology after facing accusations of plagiarism?
She sends it to the New York Times

Twitter

Goodreads

Instagram
24 June characters writing as a form of...?
Cognition

Escapism

Entertainment

Torture
25 Yellowface is an example of metafiction; what does this term mean?
Fiction that depicts authors

Fiction about movies

Fiction about the process of writing or creating fiction

Fiction about the social media company Meta

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