Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?

England

Guyana

French Guiana

Suriname
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

The United States

Ireland

The United Kingdom

France
3 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

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

Shango

Aganju

Oya

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

oxymoron

personification

simile

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

irony

metaphor

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

metaphor

rhetorical question

simile

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?

longing, pensive

angry, vengeful

peaceful, joyous

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

Oya

Shango

none

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

ancestral

havoc

tempest

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?

Guyana

the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere

on a ship

England
15 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?

the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed

Huracan

Hattie

Grace Nichols
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?

untethered

unchained

frozen

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

brought her closer to the landscape

brought her closer to her ancestors

showed her the fierceness of nature

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

what they really want with her

whether they actually exist or not

why they came to England

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

the frozen lake and trees within her

the winds and mystery of storm within her

the frozen lake and hurricane 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

heal wounds and abate tears

care for and caress the narrator

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

blindness and sight

light and dark

isolation and belonging

stormy and calm weather
22 What action word is NOT present within the seventh stanza?

following

trailing

aligning

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

remind her to be grounded

shake her foundations

melt the frozen lake within her

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

exciting, anticipated

mild, rainy

depressing, moody

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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