Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?
Washington D.C.

New York

Boston

Philadelphia
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 write the novel

The right to make the novel into a film

The right to translate the novel

The right to publish the novel
4 June is pitched to become the writer for a film about...?
Her relationship with her mother

Abortion in China

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

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

Literary fiction

Memoir

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?
Admiration

Fear

Envy

Love
8 How does June monitor social media discourse?
She tracks mentions of certain key words

She hires an assistant to do it for her

She goes on gossip forums

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 Chinese American Social Club

The AAPI Civic Engagement Fund

The Asian American's Writers' Collective

Welcome to Chinatown's Longevity Fund
11 June refers to herself and Athena as "vultures"; what does she mean by this metaphor?
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

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

Writers "feed" on each other's success
12 What does June base Mother Witch on?
A draft she stole from Athena's apartment

A portion of Athena's first novel

A story one of her students wrote at a workshop

Her own life
13 Who helps June track down the IP address of @AthenaLiusGhost?
Rory

Daniella

Tom

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

Exploitative

Transactional

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

Tutoring

Ghostwriting for novelists

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

Adele Sparks-Sato

Candice

Geoff, Athena's ex-boyfriend
17 Whose perspective is Yellowface narrated from?
June's

The perspective changes chapter-to-chapter

Athena's

Omniscient narrator
18 What are some changes that Daniella makes to the manuscript?
Making the white characters more sympathetic

Including more Chinese history

Adding in un-translated Chinese phrases

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

World War I

The 19th century

World War II
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?
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 "postcolonial tragedy"

A "Chinese historiography"

An "identity narrative"

A "white savior" story
23 Where does June post her first apology after facing accusations of plagiarism?
She sends it to the New York Times

Twitter

Goodreads

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

Torture

Cognition

Entertainment
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 movies

Fiction about the process of writing or creating fiction

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