Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?
England

Guyana

Suriname

French Guiana
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
The United States

Ireland

France

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?
Huracan

Oya

Shango

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

simile

personification

oxymoron
6 What is the meter within "Hurricane Hits England"?
common/ballad verse

blank verse

free 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?
personification

rhetorical question

simile

metaphor
9 What is the FIRST simile present in the poem?
comparing the hurricane to the landscape

comparing the wind to a ghost

comparing the trees to whales

comparing the gods to the hurricane
10 What adjectives could be used to describe the tone of the poem?
calm, zen

angry, vengeful

peaceful, joyous

longing, pensive
11 To which god does the speaker align herself?
none

Shango

Huracan

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

ancestral

spectre

tempest
13 Who is Hattie?
the speaker's cousin

the speaker

a Yoruban god

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

the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere

on a ship

Guyana
15 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?
the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed

Huracan

Grace Nichols

Hattie
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?
brought her closer to the landscape

reassured her she was in the right place

showed her the fierceness of nature

brought her closer to her ancestors
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 hurricane and tongues within her

the winds and mystery of storm within her

the frozen lake and hurricane within her

the frozen lake and trees within her
20 What do the "old tongues" do in "new places," according the third stanza?
heal wounds and abate tears

care for and caress the narrator

cause chaos and destruction

incite reflection and epiphany
21 What is the central contrast within the fourth stanza?
light and dark

isolation and belonging

stormy and calm weather

blindness and sight
22 What action word is NOT present within the seventh stanza?
following

trailing

riding

aligning
23 What does the narrator NOT invite the storm to do?
persuade her to move back home

shake her foundations

melt the frozen lake within her

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

exciting, anticipated

mild, rainy

powerful, angry
25 What literary device is most prominent in the middle section of the poem?
oxymoron

simile

metaphor

rhetorical question

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