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This Warrior Cats quiz has 44 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
The team, working with HarperCollins and the packager Working Partners, includes Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Victoria Holmes and Tui Sutherland. Holmes plans each plot and the others take turns writing.
Q 02The surname 'Hunter' was picked partly so the books would shelve next to which other animal fantasy series?
Redwall
The team has said 'Hunter' was chosen so the books would sit on shop shelves near Brian Jacques's Redwall, the mouse-abbey saga that was the obvious comparison.
Q 03Which of Rusty's friends refuses to follow him into the forest in Into the Wild?
Smudge
Smudge, the plump black-and-white cat from the garden next door, warns Rusty against the wild cats and stays behind; Rusty joins ThunderClan anyway and visits his old friend in later books.
Q 04Who wrote the first two Warriors novels, Into the Wild and Fire and Ice?
Kate Cary
Kate Cary wrote both Into the Wild and Fire and Ice, the first two books of the original arc, and went on to write many later Warriors titles.
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 06What is Rusty, the hero of Into the Wild, at the start of the book?
A pet housecat, or 'kittypet'
He leaves his Twoleg owners to join ThunderClan and is renamed Firepaw. The Clan cats' word for pets is 'kittypet', and it is not a compliment.
Q 07What is StarClan?
The spirits of the Clans' dead ancestors
StarClan is made up of the spirits of the Clans' dead ancestors, who appear in dreams to send prophecies and omens and who grant each new leader nine lives.
Q 08Which ThunderClan deputy is killed in a ShadowClan raid on the camp in Into the Wild?
Lionheart
Lionheart, Firepaw's first 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
He is named Fireheart in the same ceremony that makes Graypaw Graystripe; the leader's name Firestar comes much later, with his nine lives.
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 living in the barn near Highstones, takes Ravenpaw in; the pair later star in the Ravenpaw's Path manga trilogy.
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 secretly bore Hollyleaf, Jayfeather and Lionblaze?
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
Jayfeather has been blind since birth, which bars him from being a warrior and steers him to the medicine den; he can also walk into other cats' dreams and memories.
Q 23In Power of Three, what does the prophecy say three kin of Firestar's kin will hold?
The power of the stars in their paws
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 15How was Cinderpaw crippled, forcing her to become a medicine cat instead of a warrior?
A trap set on the Thunderpath, meant for Bluestar
The Thunderpath is the cats' name for a road; the 'monsters' on it are cars. Cinderpelt went on to train Leafpool.
Q 16Who is the mother of Cloudkit, later the warrior Cloudtail?
Princess, Fireheart's kittypet sister
Princess, Fireheart's kittypet sister, hands her firstborn kit to her brother to raise in ThunderClan; Cloudkit grows into the warrior Cloudtail, a lifelong sceptic about 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 from the Twolegplace?
A single blow that takes all nine lives
The small black cat with the dog-tooth collar slices him from chin to tail. Firestar then kills Scourge in the great battle, losing a life himself.
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.
The prophecy runs 'There will be three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws'; Hollyleaf, to her grief, proves to have no power at all.
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 spirits of which place, led by the first arc's great villain, prepare to attack the Clans?
The Dark Forest
The Dark Forest is where the wicked go instead of StarClan; its cats train living warriors in their dreams for the Great Battle.
Q 26In The New Prophecy arc, what forces the Clans to abandon their original home?
Humans destroying it with machines
The Twolegs' 'monsters' tear up the trees for a road. The Clans journey to a new home around a lake, guided by a badger named Midnight.
Q 27Feathertail dies saving which group of cats from a mountain lion?
The Tribe of Rushing Water
The Tribe live behind a waterfall in the mountains and had prophesied that a silver cat would save them from Sharptooth.
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 arc, which StarClan cat cuts off StarClan from the living Clans and possesses Bramblestar?
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 30How many books make up the eighth arc?
Six
Every main arc has six books. Standalone Super Editions, novellas, field guides and manga fill the gaps between them.