What Storm, What Thunder Quizzes

What Storm, What Thunder Quiz 1

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

Myriam J. A. Chancy

Dany Laferrière

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

Primarily in Haiti

New York

Solely in Haiti
3 What major event is the book based on?
A 2010 hurricane

A 2015 hurricane

The 2010 earthquake

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

1

10

11
5 What does Ma Lou do for a living?
She cleans houses for the wealthy

She works in the market

She is an accountant

She is a teacher
6 What is Ma Lou's relationship with her son like?
He does not talk with her

They're close

He sends her money periodically

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

Leopold

Jonas

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

She listens to them

She helps heal them

She cooks for them
9 Where is Sara living?
In her house

In a camp for internally displaced people

In a hotel

In Camp Cocasse with her husband Olivier
10 How many children does Sara have?
3

1

2

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

Olivier

Makout

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

Her daughter's spirit

Olivier's spirit

Paul pulling a prank on her
13 What happened to Jonas?
He died from an infection after they amputated his leg

His body was never found

He was killed when a house fell on him

He joins one of the boys gangs in the camps
14 How does Sara react to the loss of her three children?
She dissociates

She retreats from the world around her

She talks to their ghosts

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

Taffia

Dieudonné

Didier
16 Where is Sonia when the earthquake strikes?
Inside an elevator in the hotel where she works

At the market

Outside of a hotel where she works

Driving with Dieudonné on his motorbike
17 What does Sonia's mom do for a living?
She works at the market

Sex work

She doesn't work

Clean wealthy people's houses
18 Dieudonné feels uneasy the morning of the earthquake, this is an example of what literary device?
Foreshadowing

Motif

Allegory

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

They don't know what she does

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

Alliteration

Simile

Hyperbole
21 Where does Sonia meet Dieudonné?
In a club

At school

At the hotel

In the IDP camps
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 Dieudonné

To move to the United States

To marry a wealthy man

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 and Sonia look very similar

She is smarter than the girl
25 Where do Dieudonné and Sonia go after the earthquake?
To check on Sonia's family

To the hospital

They leave the city

To check on Leopold in the hotel

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