Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?

New York

Boston

Washington D.C.

Philadelphia
2 Where do June and Athena initially meet?

A creative writing workshop

Their freshman year dorm

Their freshman year English class

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

The right to translate the novel

The right to write the novel

The right to make the novel into a film

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

Abortion in China

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

Her relationship with her mother

The Chinese Labour Corps
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 wants to protect Athena's legacy

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

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

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

Fear

Love

Admiration

Envy
8 How does June monitor social media discourse?

She obsessively searches for photos of herself

She goes on gossip forums

She hires an assistant to do it for her

She tracks mentions of certain key words
9 Where does June come face-to-face with a relative of someone in the Chinese Labour Corps?

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

On the street in Chinatown
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

Welcome to Chinatown's Longevity Fund

The Asian American's Writers' Collective

The Chinese American Social Club
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 portion of Athena's first novel

A story one of her students wrote at a workshop

Her own life

A draft she stole from Athena's apartment
13 Who helps June track down the IP address of @AthenaLiusGhost?

Daniella

Rory

Brett

Tom
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?

Accounting

Tutoring

Publishing

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?

The perspective changes chapter-to-chapter

Athena's

Omniscient narrator

June's
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 I

Present day

World War II

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

Grief-stricken

Paranoid

Out of place

Relieved
21 What does Candice sell at the end of the novel?

The rights to a memoir

One of June's drafts

Athena's final manuscript

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

An "identity narrative"

A "postcolonial tragedy"

A "Chinese historiography"

A "white savior" story
23 Where does June post her first apology after facing accusations of plagiarism?

Instagram

She sends it to the New York Times

Goodreads

Twitter
24 June characters writing as a form of...?

Cognition

Torture

Escapism

Entertainment
25 Yellowface is an example of metafiction; what does this term mean?

Fiction about the social media company Meta

Fiction about the process of writing or creating fiction

Fiction that depicts authors

Fiction about movies

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