Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?

Washington D.C.

Boston

New York

Philadelphia
2 Where do June and Athena initially meet?

A creative writing workshop

Their freshman year dorm

An artist's retreat

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

The right to make the novel into a film

The right to translate the novel

The right to publish the novel

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

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

Abortion in China

The Chinese Labour Corps

Her relationship with her mother
5 The Last Front is categorized as what kind of novel?

Literary fiction

Memoir

Science fiction

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 her emails with Athena to become public

She wants to protect Athena's legacy

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

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

Admiration

Envy

Love

Fear
8 How does June monitor social media discourse?

She goes on gossip forums

She hires an assistant to do it for her

She obsessively searches for photos of herself

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?

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 Chinese American Social Club

Welcome to Chinatown's Longevity Fund

The Asian American's Writers' Collective

The AAPI Civic Engagement Fund
11 June refers to herself and Athena as "vultures"; what does she mean by this metaphor?

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

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

Writers "feed" on each other's success
12 What does June base Mother Witch on?

A story one of her students wrote at a workshop

Her own life

A draft she stole from Athena's apartment

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

Tom

Brett

Rory

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

Exploitative

Supportive

Antagonistic

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

Ghostwriting for novelists

Tutoring

Publishing

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

Adele Sparks-Sato

Candice

Geoff, Athena's ex-boyfriend

Diana Qiu
17 Whose perspective is Yellowface narrated from?

Omniscient narrator

The perspective changes chapter-to-chapter

Athena's

June's
18 What are some changes that Daniella makes to the manuscript?

Including more Chinese history

Making the white characters more sympathetic

Adding in un-translated Chinese phrases

Emphasizing the postcolonial themes within it
19 When is The Last Front set?

World War II

World War I

The 19th century

Present day
20 How does June feel at Athena's funeral?

Grief-stricken

Paranoid

Relieved

Out of place
21 What does Candice sell at the end of the novel?

Her own historical novel

The rights to a memoir

Athena's final manuscript

One of June's drafts
22 Adele Sparks-Sato criticizes The Last Front as an example of;

A "Chinese historiography"

A "white savior" story

An "identity narrative"

A "postcolonial tragedy"
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...?

Torture

Escapism

Cognition

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

Fiction about movies

Fiction about the social media company Meta

Fiction that depicts authors

Fiction about the process of writing or creating fiction

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