Warrior Cats
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This Warrior Cats quiz has 94 free questions with answers and covers the whole Erin Hunter saga, from the day a kittypet named Rusty walked into the forest in Into the Wild to the possessed leader of The Broken Code and the arcs beyond. It asks about the Clans and their territories, StarClan and the warrior code, the great villains (Tigerstar, Scourge and BloodClan, Ashfur), the medicine cats, and the family tree that runs from Firestar and Sandstorm through Leafpool's secret kits. It also goes behind the pen name: who Erin Hunter actually is, why the surname was chosen, which real forest inspired the setting and which 17th-century herbalist supplied the medicine cats' remedies. About a third of the questions are answerable by anyone who has read the first arc; the rest are for readers who can name Graystripe's mate, Bramblestar's father and the cat who killed Whitestorm. Every answer has been checked against a cited source, shown under each explanation.
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Q 01'Erin Hunter', the credited author of Warriors, is what?
A pen name for a team of writers
A pen name for a team of writers: one editor planned every storyline, and the writers took turns turning her outlines into finished books.
Q 02The surname 'Hunter' was picked partly so the books would shelve next to which other animal fantasy series?
Redwall
Redwall is by Brian Jacques, so the team wanted a surname starting with H, I or K to sit beside his books on the shelf; 'Hunter' also suited their ferocious cats.
Q 03Which of Rusty's friends warns him against going into the forest in Into the Wild?
Smudge
Smudge, Rusty's black-and-white friend, warns him about the dangerous wildcats in the woods; Rusty goes anyway, and when they meet again Smudge is amazed to find him still alive.
Q 04Who wrote the first two Warriors novels, Into the Wild and Fire and Ice?
Kate Cary
Kate Cary wrote both books from Victoria Holmes's storylines; Holmes had expected a single novel, but the publisher saw enough plot in her outline for six.
Q 05In which year was Into the Wild, the first Warriors book, published?
2003
Into the Wild was released in January 2003, launching the original arc later retitled The Prophecies Begin; its sequel Fire and Ice followed the same year.
Q 06Which Clan leader watches Rusty fight back against an apprentice and invites him to join ThunderClan?
Bluestar
Bluestar had just been told a prophecy that fire alone would save her Clan when she met the flame-coloured pet who stood up to Graypaw; she invited him in and named him Firepaw.
Q 07What is StarClan?
The spirits of the Clans' dead ancestors
The spirits of the Clans' dead ancestors make up StarClan; they send prophecies and omens in dreams, and medicine cats meet every half-moon to speak with them, at the Moonstone and later the Moonpool.
Q 08Which ThunderClan deputy is killed in a ShadowClan raid on the camp in Into the Wild?
Lionheart
Lionheart, Graypaw's mentor and deputy after Redtail, is killed when ShadowClan raids the ThunderClan camp, opening the deputyship to an ambitious rival.
Q 09What warrior name does Firepaw receive at the end of Into the Wild?
Fireheart
Fireheart is the name he earns after leading the rescue of ThunderClan's stolen kits from ShadowClan; Graypaw becomes Graystripe in the same ceremony.
Q 10Which ambitious ThunderClan warrior murdered the deputy Redtail in the hope of taking his place?
Tigerclaw
Tigerclaw killed Redtail during the fight at Sunningrocks and blamed an enemy warrior for it; only the apprentice Ravenpaw saw the truth, which later put his life in danger.
Q 11Which loner shares the farm barn where Ravenpaw settles after leaving ThunderClan?
Barley
Barley, a black-and-white loner, takes Ravenpaw in after Firepaw and Graypaw lead the apprentice out of Clan territory to hide him from a Clanmate who wants him dead.
Q 12Which exiled ShadowClan medicine cat does Firepaw meet on his first solo hunt?
Yellowfang
Yellowfang, a grumpy old she-cat cast out of ShadowClan, is caught by Firepaw on his first solo hunt and brought back as a prisoner; she later becomes ThunderClan's medicine cat.
Q 13Which WindClan warrior does the dying Tallstar name deputy over Mudclaw in Starlight?
Onewhisker
Tallstar, dying as the Clans settle by the lake in Starlight, names Onewhisker deputy in place of Mudclaw; Onewhisker becomes Onestar and Mudclaw's rebellion fails.
Q 21Which medicine cat is the secret mother of Jayfeather and his two littermates?
Leafpool
Leafpool, ThunderClan's medicine cat, secretly bore the three kits; because medicine cats may not have kits, her sister Squirrelflight raised them as her own.
Q 22What is Jayfeather's disability?
He is blind
He is blind from birth; Jayfeather first trains as a warrior under one-eyed Brightheart, then turns to the medicine den once he finds he can walk in other cats' dreams.
Q 23What does the prophecy say three kin of Firestar's kin will hold in their paws?
The power of the stars
The power of the stars is promised in the line 'There will be three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws'; Firestar hears it long before the three are born.
Q 14Graystripe breaks the warrior code by falling in love with a she-cat from which Clan?
RiverClan
Silverstream dies giving birth to their kits, Feathertail and Stormfur, whom Graystripe takes to live in RiverClan for a time.
Q 15What cripples the apprentice Cinderpaw, ending her warrior training?
A monster on the Thunderpath
A monster on the Thunderpath, the cats' words for a car on a road, hits Cinderpaw when she walks into a trap a traitor had laid for the Clan leader; left with a limp, she trains as a medicine cat instead.
Q 16Who is the mother of Cloudkit, later the warrior Cloudtail?
Princess
Princess, the hero's kittypet sister, hands her firstborn kit to her brother to raise in ThunderClan; Cloudkit grows into Cloudtail, who for much of his life refuses to believe in StarClan.
Q 17In The Darkest Hour, which group of alley cats does the exiled ThunderClan traitor bring to fight the Clans?
BloodClan
BloodClan, the vicious Twolegplace gang led by Scourge, is brought in by the exiled traitor; the alliance collapses when Scourge kills him rather than take his orders.
Q 18How does Scourge kill the ShadowClan leader who summoned his gang?
A single blow that takes all nine lives
A single blow that takes all nine lives: Scourge's claws, reinforced with dogs' teeth, slice the leader open from chin to tail.
Q 19Which ThunderClan deputy is killed by the alley-cat enforcer Bone in the first arc's final battle?
Whitestorm
The apprentices then take Bone down together. Graystripe becomes deputy in Whitestorm's place.
Q 20Who is Firestar's mate, and mother of his two daughters?
Sandstorm
Sandstorm, a pale ginger she-cat who began the series sneering at the kittypet apprentice, becomes Firestar's mate and the mother of his two daughters.
Q 24Bramblestar, who leads ThunderClan after Firestar, is the son of which cat?
Tigerstar
Bramblestar, born Bramblekit to Tigerstar and Goldenflower, spent his youth proving he was not his father; he succeeded Firestar as ThunderClan leader at the end of The Last Hope.
Q 25In Omen of the Stars, the cats of which place train Clan warriors in their dreams for an attack?
The Dark Forest
The Dark Forest, also called the Place of No Stars, holds the Clans' wicked dead; the first arc's great villain recruits living warriors for it, and Ivypool spies on their night training.
Q 26In The New Prophecy arc, what forces the Clans to abandon their original home?
Humans destroying it with machines
Humans destroying it with machines: Twolegs' 'monsters' tear up the forest for a new road, and the Clans leave for a lake after a badger named Midnight warns them to go.
Q 27Feathertail dies saving which group of cats from a mountain lion?
The Tribe of Rushing Water
The Tribe of Rushing Water believed a prophecy that a silver cat would save them from the lion Sharptooth; they took it to mean her brother until Feathertail brought a stalactite down on the beast.
Q 28Which Warriors arc is a prequel set long before Into the Wild?
Dawn of the Clans
Dawn of the Clans, the fifth arc, follows cats leaving the mountains for the forest and gives origin stories to Thunder, Wind, River, Shadow and Sky themselves.
Q 29In The Broken Code, which cat from ThunderClan's past possesses Bramblestar and cuts the Clans off from StarClan?
Ashfur
Ashfur, a grey warrior whose grudge went back to Squirrelflight rejecting him, seizes Bramblestar's body and seals StarClan away, while Bramblestar's spirit is left wandering.
Q 30Which is the eighth Warriors arc, in which one group of cats loses both leader and deputy?
A Starless Clan
A Starless Clan opens with one Clan's leader and deputy dying in quick succession, leaving a medicine-cat apprentice to find the next leader; like every arc before it, it runs to six books.