The Woman Warrior Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Woman Warrior? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who said, "I’m not a bad girl"?


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Brave Orchid
Moon Orchid
No Name Woman
Quiet Girl in Chinese Class
Q. Who said, "When your father lived in China, he refused to eat pastries because he didn’t want to eat the dirt the women kneaded from between their fingers"?


Narrator
Brave Orchid
Moon Orchid
No Name Woman
Quiet Girl in Chinese Class
Q. Who said, "She’s very pretty and very young; just a girl. She’s his nurse. He’s a doctor like me. What a terrible, faithless man. You’ll have to scold him for years, but first you need to sit up straight. Use my powder. Be as pretty as you can. Otherwise you won’t be able to compete"?


Narrator
Brave Orchid
Moon Orchid
No Name Woman
Quiet Girl in Chinese Class
Q. Who waid, "My aunt haunts me – her ghost drawn to me because now, after fifty years of neglect, I alone devote pages of paper to her, though not origamied into houses and clothes"?


Narrator
Moon Orchid
Brave Orchid
No Name Woman
Quiet Girl in Chinese Class
Q. Who said, "I cut it so that you would not be tongue-tied. Your tongue would be able to move in any language. You’ll be able to speak languages that are completely different from one another. You’ll be able to pronounce anything. Your frenum looked too tight to do those things, so I cut it"?


Narrator
Brave Orchid
Moon Orchid
Quiet Girl in Chinese Class
No Name Woman