Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?

New York

Philadelphia

Boston

Washington D.C.
2 Where do June and Athena initially meet?

An artist's retreat

Their freshman year dorm

A creative writing workshop

Their freshman year English class
3 When a novel goes to "auction," what is being sold?

The right to publish the novel

The right to make the novel into a film

The right to translate the novel

The right to write the novel
4 June is pitched to become the writer for a film about...?

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

The Chinese Labour Corps

Abortion in China

Her relationship with her mother
5 The Last Front is categorized as what kind of novel?

Romance

Science fiction

Literary fiction

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

She is afraid people will see the draft she plagiarized

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

Love

Fear

Envy

Admiration
8 How does June monitor social media discourse?

She hires an assistant to do it for her

She goes on gossip forums

She tracks mentions of certain key words

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?

At a release for her second novel

At a summer writing workshop for AAPI writers

On the street in Chinatown

Doing a Q&A with the Chinese American Social Club
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 Asian American's Writers' Collective

Welcome to Chinatown's Longevity Fund

The Chinese American Social Club

The AAPI Civic Engagement 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 always hungry for success and must "fly" very far in order to achieve it

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
12 What does June base Mother Witch on?

A portion of Athena's first novel

A draft she stole from Athena's apartment

Her own life

A story one of her students wrote at a workshop
13 Who helps June track down the IP address of @AthenaLiusGhost?

Brett

Rory

Daniella

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

Exploitative

Supportive

Transactional

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

Tutoring

Publishing

Accounting

Ghostwriting for novelists
16 Who does June mistakenly think is Athena's ghost?

Candice

Diana Qiu

Adele Sparks-Sato

Geoff, Athena's ex-boyfriend
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?

Adding in un-translated Chinese phrases

Making the white characters more sympathetic

Emphasizing the postcolonial themes within it

Including more Chinese history
19 When is The Last Front set?

World War I

Present day

World War II

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

Out of place

Relieved

Paranoid

Grief-stricken
21 What does Candice sell at the end of the novel?

Athena's final manuscript

Her own historical novel

The rights to a memoir

One of June's drafts
22 Adele Sparks-Sato criticizes The Last Front as an example of;

An "identity narrative"

A "Chinese historiography"

A "postcolonial tragedy"

A "white savior" story
23 Where does June post her first apology after facing accusations of plagiarism?

Goodreads

She sends it to the New York Times

Twitter

Instagram
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 process of writing or creating fiction

Fiction about the social media company Meta

Fiction about movies

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