Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?
French Guiana

Guyana

Suriname

England
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
France

The United States

The United Kingdom

Ireland
3 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?
Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose
4 Who does the speaker NOT call upon to speak to her?
Oya

Aganju

Huracan

Shango
5 What literary device is present within the fifth stanza?
oxymoron

simile

personification

onomatopoeia
6 What is the meter within "Hurricane Hits England"?
free verse

blank verse

common/ballad verse

iambic pentameter
7 What literary device is NOT present within the poem?
simile

metaphor

rhetorical question

irony
8 What literary device is present within the last stanza?
simile

metaphor

personification

rhetorical question
9 What is the FIRST simile present in the poem?
comparing the wind to a ghost

comparing the hurricane to the landscape

comparing the gods to the hurricane

comparing the trees to whales
10 What adjectives could be used to describe the tone of the poem?
angry, vengeful

calm, zen

longing, pensive

peaceful, joyous
11 To which god does the speaker align herself?
none

Oya

Shango

Huracan
12 Which of these vocabulary words is NOT present within the text?
havoc

spectre

tempest

ancestral
13 Who is Hattie?
the speaker's mother

a Yoruban god

the speaker's cousin

the speaker
14 Where can the speaker reasonably be assumed to be?
the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere

England

Guyana

on a ship
15 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?
Grace Nichols

Huracan

the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed

Hattie
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?
unchained

chained

untethered

frozen
17 What effect did the hurricane have on the woman, as described in the first stanza?
brought her closer to the landscape

showed her the fierceness of nature

reassured her she was in the right place

brought her closer to her ancestors
18 What does the speaker first want to know from the gods?
whether they actually exist or not

why they left her behind

why they came to England

what they really want with her
19 What two metaphors does the speaker use to describe her internal state?
the frozen lake and hurricane within her

the hurricane and tongues within her

the winds and mystery of storm within her

the frozen lake and trees within her
20 What do the "old tongues" do in "new places," according the third stanza?
care for and caress the narrator

heal wounds and abate tears

cause chaos and destruction

incite reflection and epiphany
21 What is the central contrast within the fourth stanza?
isolation and belonging

blindness and sight

light and dark

stormy and calm weather
22 What action word is NOT present within the seventh stanza?
riding

trailing

aligning

following
23 What does the narrator NOT invite the storm to do?
melt the frozen lake within her

shake her foundations

persuade her to move back home

remind her to be grounded
24 How is the storm described in the first stanza?
exciting, anticipated

mild, rainy

powerful, angry

depressing, moody
25 What literary device is most prominent in the middle section of the poem?
simile

rhetorical question

metaphor

oxymoron

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