The Woman Warrior

Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Parts 1-3

“No Name Woman,” “White Tigers,” and “Shaman”

Reading Check

1. What is the name of Kingston’s aunt who drowns in the well?

2. Why did the villagers attack the family home?

3. Why did Kingston think her aunt’s harassment by the mob was unfair?

4. What reasons does Kingston imagine for her aunt’s pregnancy?

5. What reason does Kingston offer to explain why her aunt might have stayed silent on the identity of the father of the child?

6. Why does Kingston speculate that the aunt’s child was a girl?

7. Why does Kingston call her aunt’s death a “spite suicide”?

8. Who is the woman warrior in the talk-stories and songs Kingston’s mother tells?

9. Who is the woman in Kingston’s own talk-story?

10. Name three challenges or skills Kingston’s woman warrior had to master in her time on the mountain.

11. How does Kingston’s woman warrior check on her family while she is in training?

12. What animal sacrifices itself in the fire on the woman warrior’s journey through the wilderness?

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