Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?
Washington D.C.

New York

Boston

Philadelphia
2 Where do June and Athena initially meet?
Their freshman year English class

Their freshman year dorm

A creative writing workshop

An artist's retreat
3 When a novel goes to "auction," what is being sold?
The right to translate the novel

The right to publish the novel

The right to write the novel

The right to make the novel into a film
4 June is pitched to become the writer for a film about...?
The Chinese Labour Corps

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

Her relationship with her mother

Abortion in China
5 The Last Front is categorized as what kind of novel?
Literary fiction

Science fiction

Memoir

Romance
6 Why does June panic when she hears that Athena's mother has agreed to give Athena's drafts to an archival library?
She doesn't want Athena's mother to be scrutinized

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

She wants to protect Athena's legacy

She is afraid people will see the draft she plagiarized
7 What word best describes how June feels towards Athena?
Love

Admiration

Envy

Fear
8 How does June monitor social media discourse?
She goes on gossip forums

She hires an assistant to do it for her

She tracks mentions of certain key words

She obsessively searches for photos of herself
9 Where does June come face-to-face with a relative of someone in the Chinese Labour Corps?
On the street in Chinatown

At a summer writing workshop for AAPI writers

At a release for her second novel

Doing a Q&A with the Chinese American Social Club
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 Asian American's Writers' Collective

The Chinese American Social Club

Welcome to Chinatown's Longevity Fund

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

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

Writers exploit the pain of others, "feeding" on "death" like vultures
12 What does June base Mother Witch on?
Her own life

A draft she stole from Athena's apartment

A portion of Athena's first novel

A story one of her students wrote at a workshop
13 Who helps June track down the IP address of @AthenaLiusGhost?
Brett

Daniella

Tom

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

Antagonistic

Exploitative

Supportive
15 What job does June quit once she begins to earn money from selling The Last Front?
Ghostwriting for novelists

Accounting

Tutoring

Publishing
16 Who does June mistakenly think is Athena's ghost?
Adele Sparks-Sato

Geoff, Athena's ex-boyfriend

Candice

Diana Qiu
17 Whose perspective is Yellowface narrated from?
Athena's

The perspective changes chapter-to-chapter

June's

Omniscient narrator
18 What are some changes that Daniella makes to the manuscript?
Adding in un-translated Chinese phrases

Emphasizing the postcolonial themes within it

Including more Chinese history

Making the white characters more sympathetic
19 When is The Last Front set?
World War II

Present day

The 19th century

World War I
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?
Her own historical novel

One of June's drafts

The rights to a memoir

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

An "identity narrative"

A "Chinese historiography"

A "white savior" story
23 Where does June post her first apology after facing accusations of plagiarism?
She sends it to the New York Times

Instagram

Twitter

Goodreads
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 about the process of writing or creating fiction

Fiction about movies

Fiction that depicts authors

Fiction about the social media company Meta

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