What Storm, What Thunder Quizzes

What Storm, What Thunder Quiz 1

1 Who is the author of What Storm, What Thunder?
Myriam J. A. Chancy

Dany Laferrière

Edwidge Danticat

Kettly Mars
2 Where is What Storm, What Thunder set?
Rwanda

New York

Solely in Haiti

Primarily in Haiti
3 What major event is the book based on?
The 2010 earthquake

A 2015 hurricane

A 2010 hurricane

The 2021 earthquake
4 How many narrators does What Storm, What Thunder have?
2

10

1

11
5 What does Ma Lou do for a living?
She is an accountant

She works in the market

She is a teacher

She cleans houses for the wealthy
6 What is Ma Lou's relationship with her son like?
They're close

He visits her everytime he comes to Haiti

He does not talk with her

He sends her money periodically
7 Who runs errands for Ma Lou?
Taffia

Sonia

Jonas

Leopold
8 How does Ma Lou help people after the earthquake?
She listens to them

She cooks for them

She helps heal them

She prays for them
9 Where is Sara living?
In Camp Cocasse with her husband Olivier

In her house

In a hotel

In a camp for internally displaced people
10 How many children does Sara have?
2

3

0

1
11 What word is on the scrap of paper Sara always keeps with her?
Olivier

Wozo

Duez

Makout
12 What does Sara think is causing the mysterious tugging?
Her daughter's spirit

Paul pulling a prank on her

The devil

Olivier's spirit
13 What happened to Jonas?
His body was never found

He was killed when a house fell on him

He joins one of the boys gangs in the camps

He died from an infection after they amputated his leg
14 How does Sara react to the loss of her three children?
She talks to their ghosts

She retreats from the world around her

She dissociates

All of the above
15 Who is not one of Sonia's siblings?
Dieudonné

Paul

Didier

Taffia
16 Where is Sonia when the earthquake strikes?
At the market

Driving with Dieudonné on his motorbike

Inside an elevator in the hotel where she works

Outside of a hotel where she works
17 What does Sonia's mom do for a living?
Sex work

She doesn't work

Clean wealthy people's houses

She works at the market
18 Dieudonné feels uneasy the morning of the earthquake, this is an example of what literary device?
Motif

Parallelism

Allegory

Foreshadowing
19 How does Sonias family feel about her work?
They don't know what she does

They're fine with it as long as she provides money for them

They stopped talking to her when they found out

They are ashamed that she is a sex worker
20 "We were to each other like fingers of the same hand" is an example of what literary device?
Metaphor

Hyperbole

Alliteration

Simile
21 Where does Sonia meet Dieudonné?
In the IDP camps

At school

In a club

At the hotel
22 Why does Dieudonné consider his relationship with Sonia to be the best kind of love?
Because there are no strings attached

Because they work and live together

Because they love each other so much

Because it's not physical
23 What is Sonia's dream?
To marry a wealthy man

To earn enough money to have a house in the hills

To marry Dieudonné

To move to the United States
24 What does Sonia notice about the girl at the house her mother works at?
She is smarter than the girl

The girl doesn't want to play with her

She and Sonia look very similar

The girl's dress is better than hers
25 Where do Dieudonné and Sonia go after the earthquake?
They leave the city

To check on Leopold in the hotel

To the hospital

To check on Sonia's family

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