Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?

French Guiana

England

Guyana

Suriname
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

The United Kingdom

The United States

Ireland

France
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

Aganju

Shango

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

simile

oxymoron

personification

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

iambic pentameter

common/ballad verse

blank verse

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

rhetorical question

metaphor

simile

irony
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 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?

peaceful, joyous

angry, vengeful

longing, pensive

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

Shango

none

Oya

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

tempest

spectre

havoc

ancestral
13 Who is Hattie?

the speaker

the speaker's cousin

a Yoruban god

the speaker's mother
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?

Huracan

Hattie

the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed

Grace Nichols
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?

chained

untethered

frozen

unchained
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 her ancestors

brought her closer to the landscape

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

why they came to England

why they left her behind

whether they actually exist or not

what they really want with her
19 What two metaphors does the speaker use to describe her internal state?

the frozen lake and trees within her

the frozen lake and hurricane 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

incite reflection and epiphany

care for and caress the narrator

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

blindness and sight

light and dark

stormy and calm weather

isolation and belonging
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?

remind her to be grounded

persuade her to move back home

shake her foundations

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

mild, rainy

powerful, angry

depressing, moody

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

oxymoron

metaphor

simile

rhetorical question

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