Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?
Guyana

French Guiana

England

Suriname
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
The United States

France

The United Kingdom

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

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

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

Huracan

Aganju

Oya
5 What literary device is present within the fifth stanza?
simile

onomatopoeia

oxymoron

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

common/ballad verse

blank verse

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

rhetorical question

simile

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

metaphor

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 wind to a ghost

comparing the hurricane to the landscape
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?
Huracan

Oya

Shango

none
12 Which of these vocabulary words is NOT present within the text?
havoc

spectre

tempest

ancestral
13 Who is Hattie?
the speaker's mother

the speaker's cousin

the speaker

a Yoruban god
14 Where can the speaker reasonably be assumed to be?
England

the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere

Guyana

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

Huracan

the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed

Grace Nichols
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?
untethered

chained

unchained

frozen
17 What effect did the hurricane have on the woman, as described in the first stanza?
showed her the fierceness of nature

reassured her she was in the right place

brought her closer to her ancestors

brought her closer to the landscape
18 What does the speaker first want to know from the gods?
what they really want with her

why they left her behind

whether they actually exist or not

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

the frozen lake and hurricane within her

the frozen lake and trees within her

the winds and mystery of storm within her
20 What do the "old tongues" do in "new places," according the third stanza?
heal wounds and abate tears

cause chaos and destruction

incite reflection and epiphany

care for and caress the narrator
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?
aligning

riding

following

trailing
23 What does the narrator NOT invite the storm to do?
shake her foundations

persuade her to move back home

remind her to be grounded

melt the frozen lake within her
24 How is the storm described in the first stanza?
powerful, angry

exciting, anticipated

depressing, moody

mild, rainy
25 What literary device is most prominent in the middle section of the poem?
rhetorical question

oxymoron

simile

metaphor

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