Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?

Suriname

England

French Guiana

Guyana
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

Ireland

The United States

France

The United Kingdom
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?

Huracan

Shango

Oya

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

oxymoron

personification

simile

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

common/ballad verse

iambic pentameter

free verse

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

rhetorical question

metaphor

irony

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

simile

metaphor

rhetorical question

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

comparing the trees to whales

comparing the wind to a ghost

comparing the gods to the hurricane

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

calm, zen

peaceful, joyous

longing, pensive

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

none

Shango

Oya

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

havoc

tempest

ancestral

spectre
13 Who is Hattie?

the speaker

the speaker's mother

the speaker's cousin

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

the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere

Guyana

England

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

Hattie

Grace Nichols

the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed

Huracan
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?

chained

unchained

frozen

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

reassured her she was in the right place

brought her closer to the landscape

brought her closer to her ancestors

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

why they came to England

whether they actually exist or not

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 frozen lake and trees within her

the winds and mystery of storm within her

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

cause chaos and destruction

care for and caress the narrator

heal wounds and abate tears

incite reflection and epiphany
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?

trailing

aligning

riding

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

melt the frozen lake within her

shake her foundations

remind her to be grounded

persuade her to move back home
24 How is the storm described in the first stanza?

exciting, anticipated

powerful, angry

depressing, moody

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

oxymoron

metaphor

simile

rhetorical question

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