What Storm, What Thunder Quizzes

What Storm, What Thunder Quiz 1

1 Who is the author of What Storm, What Thunder?
Dany Laferrière

Edwidge Danticat

Myriam J. A. Chancy

Kettly Mars
2 Where is What Storm, What Thunder set?
Solely in Haiti

Primarily in Haiti

New York

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

A 2010 hurricane

The 2010 earthquake

A 2015 hurricane
4 How many narrators does What Storm, What Thunder have?
11

1

10

2
5 What does Ma Lou do for a living?
She is a teacher

She cleans houses for the wealthy

She is an accountant

She works in the market
6 What is Ma Lou's relationship with her son like?
He visits her everytime he comes to Haiti

He does not talk with her

They're close

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

Taffia

Jonas

Leopold
8 How does Ma Lou help people after the earthquake?
She helps heal them

She listens to them

She prays for them

She cooks for them
9 Where is Sara living?
In a hotel

In a camp for internally displaced people

In her house

In Camp Cocasse with her husband Olivier
10 How many children does Sara have?
1

3

0

2
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?
Her daughter's spirit

Paul pulling a prank on her

The devil

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

He was killed when a house fell on him

His body was never found

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?
Paul

Dieudonné

Didier

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

At the market

Driving with Dieudonné on his motorbike

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

Clean wealthy people's houses

Sex work

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

Allegory

Parallelism

Foreshadowing
19 How does Sonias family feel about her work?
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

They're fine with it as long as she provides money for them
20 "We were to each other like fingers of the same hand" is an example of what literary device?
Metaphor

Hyperbole

Simile

Alliteration
21 Where does Sonia meet Dieudonné?
At the hotel

At school

In a club

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 it's not physical

Because there are no strings attached

Because they work and live together
23 What is Sonia's dream?
To move to the United States

To earn enough money to have a house in the hills

To marry Dieudonné

To marry a wealthy man
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?
To check on Leopold in the hotel

To check on Sonia's family

To the hospital

They leave the city

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