SparkNotes: The Woman Warrior: Quiz

Why does Brave Orchid say she cut Kingston's tongue?

(A) To ensure that Kingston would be quiet girl

(B) To make her able to tell talk-stories

(C) To keep her from being too quiet

(D) To make her appreciate the taste of food better

What is To Keung?

(A) The name of Brave Orchid's medical school

(B) Brave Orchid's given name

(C) Kingston's Fourth Uncle

(D) The river near the New Society Village

What is the "Gold Mountain"?

(A) The place Fa Mu Lan trained to become a warrior

(B) The place Brave Orchid and the villagers hid during the Japanese attacks

(C) China

(D) America

What are "FOBs"?

(A) Recent Chinese emigrants

(B) Special schools for Chinese-Americans

(C) Japanese WWII bombers

(D) Lands redistributed by Communists in China

What is a "frenum"?

(A) A hairy, shapeless ghost

(B) A Chinese reed pipe

(C) A part of the human tongue

(D) A Chinese herb with healing powers

In order to attract a suitor, Kingston's aunt does which of the following in "No-Name Woman"?

(A) Binds her feet

(B) Weaves a brightly-colored shawl

(C) Wears a corset

(D) Plucks hairs from her brow

What is the gourd of water in "White Tigers" used for?

(A) To help Fa Mu Lan predict the future

(B) To help Fa Mu Lan see her family

(C) To quench Fa Mu Lan's thirst after she lives on the mountain

(D) To provide the old couple with everlasting life

When Kingston, as Fa Mu Lan, discovers that she has been married in her absence, she is:

(A) Happy that she has been married to her childhood friend

(B) Angry that her parents would have married her in her absence

(C) Scared that her husband will mistreat her

(D) Upset that she cannot be a wife and mother to him

Kingston discards the notion that her aunt could have been a wild woman because:

(A) She does not want to dishonor her aunt's memory

(B) She knows that her aunt was raped

(C) She cannot identify with a woman of loose morals

(D) Her mother forbids her from talking about the subject

What almost defeats Kingston in her fantasy as Fa Mu Lan?

(A) A giant that is really a snake

(B) A powerful genie

(C) The emperor himself

(D) The baron who robbed her village

In "Shaman," Brave Orchid complains to Kingston about the cost of her birth because:

(A) In America having babies was more expensive than in China

(B) She could have had a slave-girl in China for free

(C) Complications in the birth raised the price

(D) Boys in China were delivered for free

The talk-story about the Four Empresses is told in order to:

(A) Encourage Kingston to marry a Chinese boy in her community

(B) Warn Kingston about the dangers of being a disobedient wife

(C) Show how the Communists in China would eventually fall

(D) Encourage Moon Orchid to confront her husband

Why does Kingston torment a classmate as a little girl?

(A) She resents the girl because of her quietness and unpopularity

(B) She wants to impress the other girls

(C) The girl is picked after her in baseball

(D) The girl never reads aloud

To what does Kingston compare her style as a writer at the beginning of "A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe"?

(A) A basket-weaver

(B) A shaman

(C) A knot maker

(D) A warrior

Brave Orchid works at all of the professions below EXCEPT:

(A) A grocery clerk

(B) A tomato picker

(C) A midwife

(D) A maid

As compensation for spurning Moon Orchid, Brave Orchid demands that her sister's husband:

(A) Buy her an apartment

(B) Buy them lunch

(C) Drive with them back to Stockton

(D) Pay for Moon Orchid's fare back to China

What does Kingston consider to be her true "weapons" in "White Tigers"?

(A) Her grades

(B) Her words

(C) Her experiences

(D) Her relatives

With what ability does Kingston associate power to defeat ghosts and monsters?

(A) The ability to eat

(B) The ability to fight

(C) The ability to write

(D) The ability to laugh

Why were many of Kingston's relatives killed during the Communist revolution in China?

(A) They were capitalists

(B) They belonged to religious organizations

(C) They owned land

(D) They lived in contested regions of China

Why was Kingston's Fourth Uncle supposedly killed by the Communists?

(A) He was capturing birds for himself for food

(B) He wrote an article criticizing the new regime

(C) He kept a store of crops for himself on his farm

(D) He held a government office under the old regime

After Fa Mu Lan frees a group of women from their bondage, they:

(A) Are so conditioned that they want to stay on as slaves to the baron

(B) Form a mercenary army

(C) Fight under Fa Mu Lan

(D) Marry generals from her army and start a new settlement

Birds appear as symbols in all of the following EXCEPT:

(A) The story of the Emperor and his four wives

(B) The story about her Fourth Uncle, who was killed by the Communists

(C) The story of her mother taking a lucky ship to Canton

(D) The story of Fa Mu Lan climbing the mountain

Why is a woman stoned to death in "Shaman"?

(A) She has an illegitimate child

(B) She is hoarding food

(C) The villagers think she is Japanese

(D) The villagers think she is a spy

Why does Brave Orchid tell Kingston about No-Name Woman?

(A) Because Kingston is about to get married

(B) Because she feels guilty

(C) Because Kingston is starting to menstruate

(D) Because Kingston finds a picture of her aunt