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 dorm

Their freshman year English class

A creative writing workshop

An artist's retreat
3 When a novel goes to "auction," what is being sold?

The right to translate the novel

The right to make the novel into a film

The right to write the novel

The right to publish the novel
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?

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 is afraid people will see the draft she plagiarized

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

She wants to protect Athena's legacy
7 What word best describes how June feels towards Athena?

Fear

Envy

Love

Admiration
8 How does June monitor social media discourse?

She tracks mentions of certain key words

She goes on gossip forums

She hires an assistant to do it for her

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?

On the street in Chinatown

At a release for her second novel

Doing a Q&A with the Chinese American Social Club

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?

The AAPI Civic Engagement Fund

The Asian American's Writers' Collective

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 "feed" on each other's success

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
12 What does June base Mother Witch on?

A story one of her students wrote at a workshop

A portion of Athena's first novel

Her own life

A draft she stole from Athena's apartment
13 Who helps June track down the IP address of @AthenaLiusGhost?

Tom

Rory

Daniella

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

Antagonistic

Exploitative

Supportive

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

Tutoring

Accounting

Ghostwriting for novelists

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

Adele Sparks-Sato

Diana Qiu

Geoff, Athena's ex-boyfriend

Candice
17 Whose perspective is Yellowface narrated from?

Athena's

The perspective changes chapter-to-chapter

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

Present day

The 19th century

World War I
20 How does June feel at Athena's funeral?

Paranoid

Grief-stricken

Out of place

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

The rights to a memoir

Her own historical novel

Athena's final manuscript

One of June's drafts
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

Twitter

Goodreads

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

Escapism

Torture

Entertainment

Cognition
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 that depicts authors

Fiction about the social media company Meta

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