Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?

Boston

Washington D.C.

Philadelphia

New York
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 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...?

Her relationship with her mother

The Chinese Labour Corps

Abortion in China

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
5 The Last Front is categorized as what kind of novel?

Romance

Science fiction

Memoir

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 wants to protect Athena's legacy

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

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?

Fear

Admiration

Love

Envy
8 How does June monitor social media discourse?

She goes on gossip forums

She tracks mentions of certain key words

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 summer writing workshop for AAPI writers

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 AAPI Civic Engagement Fund

The Asian American's Writers' Collective

The Chinese American Social Club

Welcome to Chinatown's Longevity Fund
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 "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
12 What does June base Mother Witch on?

Her own life

A portion of Athena's first novel

A story one of her students wrote at a workshop

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?

Supportive

Antagonistic

Exploitative

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

Tutoring

Ghostwriting for novelists

Publishing

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

Diana Qiu

Geoff, Athena's ex-boyfriend

Adele Sparks-Sato

Candice
17 Whose perspective is Yellowface narrated from?

Athena's

June's

The perspective changes chapter-to-chapter

Omniscient narrator
18 What are some changes that Daniella makes to the manuscript?

Adding in un-translated Chinese phrases

Making the white characters more sympathetic

Including more Chinese history

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

World War II

World War I

Present day

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

Grief-stricken

Relieved

Out of place

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

Athena's final manuscript

Her own historical novel

One of June's drafts

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

A "white savior" story

A "Chinese historiography"

An "identity narrative"

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

Instagram

She sends it to the New York Times

Twitter

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

Torture

Entertainment

Cognition

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

Fiction about movies

Fiction about the process of writing or creating fiction

Fiction about the social media company Meta

Fiction that depicts authors

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