What Storm, What Thunder Quizzes

What Storm, What Thunder Quiz 1

1 Who is the author of What Storm, What Thunder?
Edwidge Danticat

Kettly Mars

Dany Laferrière

Myriam J. A. Chancy
2 Where is What Storm, What Thunder set?
Primarily in Haiti

Rwanda

New York

Solely in Haiti
3 What major event is the book based on?
The 2021 earthquake

A 2015 hurricane

A 2010 hurricane

The 2010 earthquake
4 How many narrators does What Storm, What Thunder have?
11

2

10

1
5 What does Ma Lou do for a living?
She is an accountant

She works in the market

She cleans houses for the wealthy

She is a teacher
6 What is Ma Lou's relationship with her son like?
They're close

He does not talk with her

He sends her money periodically

He visits her everytime he comes to Haiti
7 Who runs errands for Ma Lou?
Taffia

Leopold

Sonia

Jonas
8 How does Ma Lou help people after the earthquake?
She cooks for them

She helps heal them

She prays for them

She listens to them
9 Where is Sara living?
In a hotel

In her house

In a camp for internally displaced people

In Camp Cocasse with her husband Olivier
10 How many children does Sara have?
2

1

3

0
11 What word is on the scrap of paper Sara always keeps with her?
Wozo

Duez

Makout

Olivier
12 What does Sara think is causing the mysterious tugging?
Paul pulling a prank on her

Olivier's spirit

The devil

Her daughter's spirit
13 What happened to Jonas?
He joins one of the boys gangs in the camps

He died from an infection after they amputated his leg

He was killed when a house fell on him

His body was never found
14 How does Sara react to the loss of her three children?
She talks to their ghosts

She dissociates

She retreats from the world around her

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

Paul

Taffia

Didier
16 Where is Sonia when the earthquake strikes?
Driving with Dieudonné on his motorbike

Outside of a hotel where she works

At the market

Inside an elevator in the hotel where she works
17 What does Sonia's mom do for a living?
Clean wealthy people's houses

Sex work

She works at the market

She doesn't work
18 Dieudonné feels uneasy the morning of the earthquake, this is an example of what literary device?
Allegory

Parallelism

Motif

Foreshadowing
19 How does Sonias family feel about her work?
They're fine with it as long as she provides money for them

They are ashamed that she is a sex worker

They don't know what she does

They stopped talking to her when they found out
20 "We were to each other like fingers of the same hand" is an example of what literary device?
Alliteration

Metaphor

Simile

Hyperbole
21 Where does Sonia meet Dieudonné?
At the hotel

At school

In the IDP camps

In a club
22 Why does Dieudonné consider his relationship with Sonia to be the best kind of love?
Because it's not physical

Because they work and live together

Because they love each other so much

Because there are no strings attached
23 What is Sonia's dream?
To marry a wealthy man

To move to the United States

To marry Dieudonné

To earn enough money to have a house in the hills
24 What does Sonia notice about the girl at the house her mother works at?
The girl doesn't want to play with her

The girl's dress is better than hers

She is smarter than the girl

She and Sonia look very similar
25 Where do Dieudonné and Sonia go after the earthquake?
To the hospital

They leave the city

To check on Sonia's family

To check on Leopold in the hotel

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