Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?

Boston

Philadelphia

Washington D.C.

New York
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 publish the novel

The right to translate the novel

The right to make the novel into a film

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?

Memoir

Literary fiction

Romance

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 Athena's mother to be scrutinized

She is afraid people will see the draft she plagiarized

She wants to protect Athena's legacy

She doesn't want her emails with Athena to become public
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 tracks mentions of certain key words

She goes on gossip forums

She hires an assistant to do it for her
9 Where does June come face-to-face with a relative of someone in the Chinese Labour Corps?

At a summer writing workshop for AAPI writers

At a release for her second novel

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 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 "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 are always hungry for success and must "fly" very far in order to achieve it
12 What does June base Mother Witch on?

A story one of her students wrote at a workshop

A draft she stole from Athena's apartment

Her own life

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

Tom

Brett

Daniella

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

Transactional

Exploitative

Antagonistic

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

Tutoring

Ghostwriting for novelists

Accounting

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

Candice

Geoff, Athena's ex-boyfriend

Adele Sparks-Sato

Diana Qiu
17 Whose perspective is Yellowface narrated from?

Omniscient narrator

June's

The perspective changes chapter-to-chapter

Athena'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?

The 19th century

World War II

World War I

Present day
20 How does June feel at Athena's funeral?

Grief-stricken

Paranoid

Out of place

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

One of June's drafts

Athena's final manuscript

Her own historical novel

The rights to a memoir
22 Adele Sparks-Sato criticizes The Last Front as an example of;

A "postcolonial tragedy"

A "white savior" story

A "Chinese historiography"

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

Goodreads

Instagram

She sends it to the New York Times

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

Torture

Entertainment

Escapism

Cognition
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 about movies

Fiction that depicts authors

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