What Storm, What Thunder Quizzes

What Storm, What Thunder Quiz 1

1 Who is the author of What Storm, What Thunder?
Kettly Mars

Dany Laferrière

Myriam J. A. Chancy

Edwidge Danticat
2 Where is What Storm, What Thunder set?
Solely in Haiti

Primarily in Haiti

Rwanda

New York
3 What major event is the book based on?
The 2021 earthquake

The 2010 earthquake

A 2015 hurricane

A 2010 hurricane
4 How many narrators does What Storm, What Thunder have?
2

10

11

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

She is a teacher

She cleans houses for the wealthy

She works in the market
6 What is Ma Lou's relationship with her son like?
He sends her money periodically

They're close

He visits her everytime he comes to Haiti

He does not talk with her
7 Who runs errands for Ma Lou?
Taffia

Leopold

Sonia

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

She cooks for them

She listens to them

She helps heal them
9 Where is Sara living?
In a hotel

In Camp Cocasse with her husband Olivier

In a camp for internally displaced people

In her house
10 How many children does Sara have?
0

2

1

3
11 What word is on the scrap of paper Sara always keeps with her?
Olivier

Wozo

Makout

Duez
12 What does Sara think is causing the mysterious tugging?
The devil

Her daughter's spirit

Paul pulling a prank on her

Olivier's spirit
13 What happened to Jonas?
He died from an infection after they amputated his leg

He joins one of the boys gangs in the camps

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 retreats from the world around her

She dissociates

She talks to their ghosts

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

Didier

Paul

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

Inside an elevator in the hotel where she works

At the market

Outside of a hotel where she works
17 What does Sonia's mom do for a living?
She works at the market

Sex work

Clean wealthy people's houses

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

Foreshadowing

Motif

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

They stopped talking to her when they found out

They don't know what she does

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?
Simile

Alliteration

Hyperbole

Metaphor
21 Where does Sonia meet Dieudonné?
At school

In a club

At the hotel

In the IDP camps
22 Why does Dieudonné consider his relationship with Sonia to be the best kind of love?
Because they love each other so much

Because they work and live together

Because there are no strings attached

Because it's not physical
23 What is Sonia's dream?
To move to the United States

To marry a wealthy man

To earn enough money to have a house in the hills

To marry Dieudonné
24 What does Sonia notice about the girl at the house her mother works at?
She and Sonia look very similar

The girl doesn't want to play with her

She is smarter than the girl

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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