Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?
Boston

New York

Washington D.C.

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

A creative writing workshop

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 publish the novel

The right to make the novel into a film

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

Her relationship with her mother

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

The Chinese Labour Corps
5 The Last Front is categorized as what kind of novel?
Memoir

Literary fiction

Romance

Science 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 is afraid people will see the draft she plagiarized

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

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?
Love

Admiration

Envy

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

She goes on gossip forums

She obsessively searches for photos of herself

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?
At a summer writing workshop for AAPI writers

At a release for her second novel

On the street in Chinatown

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

Welcome to Chinatown's Longevity Fund

The AAPI Civic Engagement Fund

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

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

Daniella

Brett

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

Exploitative

Supportive

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

Ghostwriting for novelists

Accounting

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

Adele Sparks-Sato

Geoff, Athena's ex-boyfriend

Candice
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?
Making the white characters more sympathetic

Emphasizing the postcolonial themes within it

Including more Chinese history

Adding in un-translated Chinese phrases
19 When is The Last Front set?
The 19th century

Present day

World War I

World War II
20 How does June feel at Athena's funeral?
Out of place

Relieved

Grief-stricken

Paranoid
21 What does Candice sell at the end of the novel?
Athena's final manuscript

One of June's drafts

The rights to a memoir

Her own historical novel
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?
Twitter

Instagram

She sends it to the New York Times

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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