Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?

England

Suriname

French Guiana

Guyana
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

The United States

France

Ireland

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

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold 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

Aganju

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

simile

onomatopoeia

personification

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

free verse

iambic pentameter

common/ballad verse

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

irony

simile

metaphor

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

simile

rhetorical question

metaphor

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

comparing the wind to a ghost

comparing the gods to the hurricane

comparing the trees to whales

comparing the hurricane to the landscape
10 What adjectives could be used to describe the tone of the poem?

longing, pensive

calm, zen

peaceful, joyous

angry, vengeful
11 To which god does the speaker align herself?

Oya

none

Huracan

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

tempest

ancestral

spectre

havoc
13 Who is Hattie?

the speaker

a Yoruban god

the speaker's cousin

the speaker's mother
14 Where can the speaker reasonably be assumed to be?

England

on a ship

the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere

Guyana
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?

unchained

chained

frozen

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

showed her the fierceness of nature

brought her closer to the landscape

brought her closer to her ancestors

reassured her she was in the right place
18 What does the speaker first want to know from the gods?

whether they actually exist or not

why they came to England

what they really want with her

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

the frozen lake and hurricane within her

the winds and mystery of storm within her

the frozen lake and trees within her

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

heal wounds and abate tears

incite reflection and epiphany

care for and caress the narrator

cause chaos and destruction
21 What is the central contrast within the fourth stanza?

isolation and belonging

blindness and sight

stormy and calm weather

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

aligning

trailing

riding

following
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

mild, rainy

exciting, anticipated

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

rhetorical question

simile

oxymoron

metaphor

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