Yellowface Quizzes

Yellowface Quiz 1

1 Where is June from?
Washington D.C.

Philadelphia

New York

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

An artist's retreat

Their freshman year dorm

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 write the novel

The right to make the novel into a film

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

Her relationship with her mother

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
5 The Last Front is categorized as what kind of novel?
Memoir

Literary fiction

Science fiction

Romance
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?
Envy

Fear

Love

Admiration
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?
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

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 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 exploit the pain of others, "feeding" on "death" like vultures

Writers "feed" on each other's success
12 What does June base Mother Witch on?
Her own life

A story one of her students wrote at a workshop

A portion of Athena's first novel

A draft she stole from Athena's apartment
13 Who helps June track down the IP address of @AthenaLiusGhost?
Tom

Daniella

Rory

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

Transactional

Exploitative

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

Ghostwriting for novelists

Tutoring

Accounting
16 Who does June mistakenly think is Athena's ghost?
Adele Sparks-Sato

Candice

Diana Qiu

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

Athena's

The perspective changes chapter-to-chapter

Omniscient narrator
18 What are some changes that Daniella makes to the manuscript?
Emphasizing the postcolonial themes within it

Adding in un-translated Chinese phrases

Including more Chinese history

Making the white characters more sympathetic
19 When is The Last Front set?
Present day

World War II

The 19th century

World War I
20 How does June feel at Athena's funeral?
Paranoid

Relieved

Out of place

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

One of June's drafts

Athena's final manuscript

The rights to a memoir
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?
Goodreads

She sends it to the New York Times

Twitter

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

Cognition

Torture

Escapism
25 Yellowface is an example of metafiction; what does this term mean?
Fiction about movies

Fiction about the social media company Meta

Fiction that depicts authors

Fiction about the process of writing or creating fiction

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