Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?
New York

Washington D.C.

Philadelphia

Boston
2 Where do June and Athena initially meet?
Their freshman year English class

Their freshman year dorm

A creative writing workshop

An artist's retreat
3 When a novel goes to "auction," what is being sold?
The right to make the novel into a film

The right to write the novel

The right to publish 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

Her relationship with her mother

The Chinese Labour Corps

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

Memoir

Science fiction

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 Athena's mother to be scrutinized

She is afraid people will see the draft she plagiarized

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

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?
Doing a Q&A with the Chinese American Social Club

At a release for her second novel

On the street in Chinatown

At a summer writing workshop for AAPI writers
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?
Welcome to Chinatown's Longevity Fund

The Chinese American Social Club

The AAPI Civic Engagement Fund

The Asian American's Writers' Collective
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?
Her own life

A portion of Athena's first novel

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

Brett

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

Supportive

Exploitative

Antagonistic
15 What job does June quit once she begins to earn money from selling The Last Front?
Ghostwriting for novelists

Publishing

Tutoring

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

Geoff, Athena's ex-boyfriend

Diana Qiu

Adele Sparks-Sato
17 Whose perspective is Yellowface narrated from?
June's

Athena's

Omniscient narrator

The perspective changes chapter-to-chapter
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?
Present day

World War II

World War I

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

Out of place

Paranoid

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

The rights to a memoir

Her own historical novel

One of June's drafts
22 Adele Sparks-Sato criticizes The Last Front as an example of;
A "white savior" story

A "Chinese historiography"

A "postcolonial tragedy"

An "identity narrative"
23 Where does June post her first apology after facing accusations of plagiarism?
She sends it to the New York Times

Twitter

Instagram

Goodreads
24 June characters writing as a form of...?
Cognition

Entertainment

Escapism

Torture
25 Yellowface is an example of metafiction; what does this term mean?
Fiction that depicts authors

Fiction about the social media company Meta

Fiction about the process of writing or creating fiction

Fiction about movies

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