Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?
Washington D.C.

Philadelphia

Boston

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

Their freshman year English class

An artist's retreat

A creative writing workshop
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 write the novel

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

Her relationship with her mother

The Chinese Labour Corps

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
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 wants to protect Athena's legacy

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

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

Envy

Fear

Love
8 How does June monitor social media discourse?
She hires an assistant to do it for her

She goes on gossip forums

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?
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 Chinese American Social Club

Welcome to Chinatown's Longevity Fund

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 "feed" on each other's success

Writers are always hungry for success and must "fly" very far in order to achieve it

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

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

Brett

Tom

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

Supportive

Transactional

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

Accounting

Ghostwriting for novelists

Tutoring
16 Who does June mistakenly think is Athena's ghost?
Adele Sparks-Sato

Geoff, Athena's ex-boyfriend

Diana Qiu

Candice
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?
Making the white characters more sympathetic

Emphasizing the postcolonial themes within it

Adding in un-translated Chinese phrases

Including more Chinese history
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?
Paranoid

Out of place

Grief-stricken

Relieved
21 What does Candice sell at the end of the novel?
One of June's drafts

Her own historical novel

Athena's final manuscript

The rights to a memoir
22 Adele Sparks-Sato criticizes The Last Front as an example of;
A "Chinese historiography"

An "identity narrative"

A "white savior" story

A "postcolonial tragedy"
23 Where does June post her first apology after facing accusations of plagiarism?
Goodreads

Twitter

She sends it to the New York Times

Instagram
24 June characters writing as a form of...?
Escapism

Entertainment

Torture

Cognition
25 Yellowface is an example of metafiction; what does this term mean?
Fiction about the process of writing or creating fiction

Fiction that depicts authors

Fiction about movies

Fiction about the social media company Meta

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