Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?
Suriname

French Guiana

England

Guyana
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
Ireland

France

The United Kingdom

The United States
3 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?
Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

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

Shango

Huracan

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

simile

oxymoron

personification
6 What is the meter within "Hurricane Hits England"?
blank verse

iambic pentameter

common/ballad verse

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

irony

metaphor

rhetorical question
8 What literary device is present within the last stanza?
metaphor

simile

personification

rhetorical question
9 What is the FIRST simile present in the poem?
comparing the wind to a ghost

comparing the trees to whales

comparing the hurricane to the landscape

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

calm, zen

angry, vengeful

longing, pensive
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?
spectre

havoc

tempest

ancestral
13 Who is Hattie?
a Yoruban god

the speaker's mother

the speaker

the speaker's cousin
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

Hattie

Grace Nichols

Huracan
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?
untethered

chained

frozen

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 her ancestors

reassured her she was in the right place

brought her closer to the landscape
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 winds and mystery of storm within her

the frozen lake and trees within her

the hurricane and tongues 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?
light and dark

isolation and belonging

blindness and sight

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

aligning

following

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

melt the frozen lake within her

remind her to be grounded

shake her foundations
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?
rhetorical question

metaphor

simile

oxymoron

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