Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?

French Guiana

Suriname

Guyana

England
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

France

The United States

Ireland

The United Kingdom
3 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Commonwealth Poetry Prize
4 Who does the speaker NOT call upon to speak to her?

Oya

Shango

Huracan

Aganju
5 What literary device is present within the fifth stanza?

oxymoron

simile

onomatopoeia

personification
6 What is the meter within "Hurricane Hits England"?

common/ballad verse

blank verse

iambic pentameter

free verse
7 What literary device is NOT present within the poem?

irony

rhetorical question

simile

metaphor
8 What literary device is present within the last stanza?

metaphor

rhetorical question

personification

simile
9 What is the FIRST simile present in the poem?

comparing the trees to whales

comparing the gods to the hurricane

comparing the hurricane to the landscape

comparing the wind to a ghost
10 What adjectives could be used to describe the tone of the poem?

peaceful, joyous

angry, vengeful

longing, pensive

calm, zen
11 To which god does the speaker align herself?

Oya

none

Shango

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

tempest

spectre

havoc

ancestral
13 Who is Hattie?

a Yoruban god

the speaker's mother

the speaker's cousin

the speaker
14 Where can the speaker reasonably be assumed to be?

Guyana

on a ship

the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere

England
15 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?

Grace Nichols

the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed

Huracan

Hattie
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?

frozen

unchained

chained

untethered
17 What effect did the hurricane have on the woman, as described in the first stanza?

brought her closer to the landscape

reassured her she was in the right place

brought her closer to her ancestors

showed her the fierceness of nature
18 What does the speaker first want to know from the gods?

what they really want with her

whether they actually exist or not

why they left her behind

why they came to England
19 What two metaphors does the speaker use to describe her internal state?

the frozen lake and trees within her

the winds and mystery of storm within her

the hurricane and tongues within her

the frozen lake and hurricane within her
20 What do the "old tongues" do in "new places," according the third stanza?

care for and caress the narrator

cause chaos and destruction

incite reflection and epiphany

heal wounds and abate tears
21 What is the central contrast within the fourth stanza?

stormy and calm weather

blindness and sight

isolation and belonging

light and dark
22 What action word is NOT present within the seventh stanza?

following

trailing

aligning

riding
23 What does the narrator NOT invite the storm to do?

shake her foundations

melt the frozen lake within her

persuade her to move back home

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

powerful, angry

mild, rainy

depressing, moody

exciting, anticipated
25 What literary device is most prominent in the middle section of the poem?

oxymoron

simile

metaphor

rhetorical question

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