Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?

Philadelphia

Boston

New York

Washington D.C.
2 Where do June and Athena initially meet?

An artist's retreat

Their freshman year English class

A creative writing workshop

Their freshman year dorm
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 publish the novel

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

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

Abortion in China

Her relationship with her mother

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

Romance

Memoir

Literary fiction

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 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

She doesn't want Athena's mother to be scrutinized
7 What word best describes how June feels towards Athena?

Admiration

Fear

Envy

Love
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?

At a summer writing workshop for AAPI writers

On the street in Chinatown

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 AAPI Civic Engagement Fund

Welcome to Chinatown's Longevity Fund

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

Her own life

A draft she stole from Athena's apartment

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

Tom

Daniella

Rory

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

Supportive

Exploitative

Antagonistic

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

Accounting

Publishing

Ghostwriting for novelists

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

Candice

Adele Sparks-Sato

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?

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?

World War I

World War II

Present day

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

Relieved

Grief-stricken

Out of place

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

Her own historical novel

Athena's final manuscript

The rights to a memoir

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

A "postcolonial tragedy"

An "identity narrative"

A "white savior" story

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

Twitter

Goodreads

Instagram

She sends it to the New York Times
24 June characters writing as a form of...?

Entertainment

Torture

Cognition

Escapism
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 about movies

Fiction that depicts authors

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