Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?

Philadelphia

Boston

New York

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

Their freshman year dorm

A creative writing workshop

An artist's retreat

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

The right to translate the novel

The right to write the novel

The right to publish the novel

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

Abortion in China

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

Her relationship with her mother

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

Literary fiction

Science fiction

Romance

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 is afraid people will see the draft she plagiarized

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
7 What word best describes how June feels towards Athena?

Fear

Admiration

Envy

Love
8 How does June monitor social media discourse?

She obsessively searches for photos of herself

She hires an assistant to do it for her

She goes on gossip forums

She tracks mentions of certain key words
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

On the street in Chinatown

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?

Welcome to Chinatown's Longevity Fund

The AAPI Civic Engagement Fund

The Chinese American Social Club

The Asian American's Writers' Collective
11 June refers to herself and Athena as "vultures"; what does she mean by this metaphor?

Writers "feed" on each other's success

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
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?

Rory

Tom

Brett

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

Transactional

Exploitative

Supportive

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

Publishing

Accounting

Ghostwriting for novelists

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

Geoff, Athena's ex-boyfriend

Adele Sparks-Sato

Candice

Diana Qiu
17 Whose perspective is Yellowface narrated from?

Omniscient narrator

Athena's

June's

The perspective changes chapter-to-chapter
18 What are some changes that Daniella makes to the manuscript?

Including more Chinese history

Adding in un-translated Chinese phrases

Emphasizing the postcolonial themes within it

Making the white characters more sympathetic
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?

Paranoid

Out of place

Relieved

Grief-stricken
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;

An "identity narrative"

A "white savior" story

A "postcolonial tragedy"

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

Instagram

Goodreads

She sends it to the New York Times

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

Entertainment

Cognition

Escapism

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

Fiction about the process of writing or creating fiction

Fiction about the social media company Meta

Fiction that depicts authors

Fiction about movies

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