Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?

England

Suriname

Guyana

French Guiana
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

The United Kingdom

Ireland

France

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

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize
4 Who does the speaker NOT call upon to speak to her?

Huracan

Shango

Aganju

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

personification

oxymoron

onomatopoeia

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

blank verse

common/ballad verse

free verse

iambic pentameter
7 What literary device is NOT present within the poem?

metaphor

rhetorical question

simile

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

metaphor

rhetorical question

personification

simile
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?

angry, vengeful

peaceful, joyous

calm, zen

longing, pensive
11 To which god does the speaker align herself?

Huracan

Oya

Shango

none
12 Which of these vocabulary words is NOT present within the text?

ancestral

tempest

spectre

havoc
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?

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

Huracan

Grace Nichols

the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?

frozen

chained

untethered

unchained
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 winds and mystery of storm within her

the frozen lake and trees within her

the hurricane and tongues within her

the frozen lake and hurricane 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

incite reflection and epiphany

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

isolation and belonging

stormy and calm weather

blindness and sight

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?

shake her foundations

persuade her to move back home

melt the frozen lake within her

remind her to be grounded
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?

oxymoron

metaphor

rhetorical question

simile

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