Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?
New York

Boston

Washington D.C.

Philadelphia
2 Where do June and Athena initially meet?
A creative writing workshop

Their freshman year English class

Their freshman year dorm

An artist's retreat
3 When a novel goes to "auction," what is being sold?
The right to make the novel into a film

The right to publish the novel

The right to write the novel

The right to translate the novel
4 June is pitched to become the writer for a film about...?
The Chinese Labour Corps

Abortion in China

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

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

Memoir

Science fiction

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 doesn't want Athena's mother to be scrutinized

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

She wants to protect Athena's legacy

She is afraid people will see the draft she plagiarized
7 What word best describes how June feels towards Athena?
Envy

Love

Admiration

Fear
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?
Doing a Q&A with the Chinese American Social Club

At a summer writing workshop for AAPI writers

At a release for her second novel

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 Asian American's Writers' Collective

The Chinese American Social Club

Welcome to Chinatown's Longevity Fund

The AAPI Civic Engagement 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?
A story one of her students wrote at a workshop

Her own life

A draft she stole from Athena's apartment

A portion of Athena's first novel
13 Who helps June track down the IP address of @AthenaLiusGhost?
Tom

Brett

Rory

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

Antagonistic

Exploitative

Supportive
15 What job does June quit once she begins to earn money from selling The Last Front?
Ghostwriting for novelists

Publishing

Tutoring

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

Candice

Adele Sparks-Sato

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

Omniscient narrator

The perspective changes chapter-to-chapter

June's
18 What are some changes that Daniella makes to the manuscript?
Emphasizing the postcolonial themes within it

Making the white characters more sympathetic

Including more Chinese history

Adding in un-translated Chinese phrases
19 When is The Last Front set?
World War I

The 19th century

Present day

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

Out of place

Paranoid

Grief-stricken
21 What does Candice sell at the end of the novel?
Athena's final manuscript

One of June's drafts

The rights to a memoir

Her own historical novel
22 Adele Sparks-Sato criticizes The Last Front as an example of;
A "white savior" story

A "Chinese historiography"

A "postcolonial tragedy"

An "identity narrative"
23 Where does June post her first apology after facing accusations of plagiarism?
Goodreads

Instagram

Twitter

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

Cognition

Entertainment

Escapism
25 Yellowface is an example of metafiction; what does this term mean?
Fiction about the social media company Meta

Fiction about movies

Fiction that depicts authors

Fiction about the process of writing or creating fiction

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