What Storm, What Thunder Quizzes

What Storm, What Thunder Quiz 1

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

Edwidge Danticat

Myriam J. A. Chancy

Dany Laferrière
2 Where is What Storm, What Thunder set?
Rwanda

Solely in Haiti

New York

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

The 2021 earthquake

A 2015 hurricane

The 2010 earthquake
4 How many narrators does What Storm, What Thunder have?
10

11

2

1
5 What does Ma Lou do for a living?
She cleans houses for the wealthy

She works in the market

She is a teacher

She is an accountant
6 What is Ma Lou's relationship with her son like?
He visits her everytime he comes to Haiti

He sends her money periodically

They're close

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

Jonas

Sonia

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

She prays for them

She listens to them

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

In a hotel

In Camp Cocasse with her husband Olivier

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

0

1

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

Wozo

Olivier

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

Olivier's spirit

Paul pulling a prank on her

The devil
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

His body was never found

He was killed when a house fell on him
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?
Didier

Dieudonné

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

Outside of a hotel where she works

At the market
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?
Motif

Allegory

Parallelism

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

They are ashamed that she is a sex worker

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

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?
Simile

Alliteration

Metaphor

Hyperbole
21 Where does Sonia meet Dieudonné?
At school

In the IDP camps

At the hotel

In a club
22 Why does Dieudonné consider his relationship with Sonia to be the best kind of love?
Because they work and live together

Because it's not physical

Because there are no strings attached

Because they love each other so much
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 a wealthy man

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's dress is better than hers

She is smarter than the girl

The girl doesn't want to play with her
25 Where do Dieudonné and Sonia go after the earthquake?
To check on Sonia's family

They leave the city

To check on Leopold in the hotel

To the hospital

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