Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?

Philadelphia

Boston

Washington D.C.

New York
2 Where do June and Athena initially meet?

An artist's retreat

Their freshman year dorm

Their freshman year English class

A creative writing workshop
3 When a novel goes to "auction," what is being sold?

The right to publish the novel

The right to make the novel into a film

The right to write the novel

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

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

The Chinese Labour Corps

Her relationship with her mother

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

Science fiction

Memoir

Romance

Literary fiction
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 her emails with Athena to become public

She is afraid people will see the draft she plagiarized

She doesn't want Athena's mother to be scrutinized

She wants to protect Athena's legacy
7 What word best describes how June feels towards Athena?

Fear

Admiration

Love

Envy
8 How does June monitor social media discourse?

She hires an assistant to do it for her

She goes on gossip forums

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?

At a summer writing workshop for AAPI writers

Doing a Q&A with the Chinese American Social Club

On the street in Chinatown

At a release for her second novel
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 AAPI Civic Engagement Fund

The Chinese American Social Club

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 always hungry for success and must "fly" very far in order to achieve it

Writers are able to fly above their subject matter, surveying it from the sky and taking in the whole picture
12 What does June base Mother Witch on?

A draft she stole from Athena's apartment

Her own life

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?

Rory

Brett

Tom

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

Supportive

Transactional

Antagonistic

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

Publishing

Tutoring

Accounting

Ghostwriting for novelists
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

June's

The perspective changes chapter-to-chapter

Omniscient narrator
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

World War II

Present day

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

Paranoid

Relieved

Out of place

Grief-stricken
21 What does Candice sell at the end of the novel?

The rights to a memoir

Athena's final manuscript

One of June's drafts

Her own historical novel
22 Adele Sparks-Sato criticizes The Last Front as an example of;

A "white savior" story

A "Chinese historiography"

An "identity narrative"

A "postcolonial tragedy"
23 Where does June post her first apology after facing accusations of plagiarism?

She sends it to the New York Times

Goodreads

Twitter

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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