Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?
Suriname

Guyana

French Guiana

England
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
The United States

The United Kingdom

Ireland

France
3 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?
Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose
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?
oxymoron

simile

personification

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

blank verse

iambic pentameter

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

irony

simile

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

personification

rhetorical question

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

comparing the wind to a ghost

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

longing, pensive

calm, zen

peaceful, joyous
11 To which god does the speaker align herself?
none

Oya

Shango

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

ancestral

havoc

spectre
13 Who is Hattie?
the speaker's mother

the speaker

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

England

on a ship
15 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?
the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed

Hattie

Huracan

Grace Nichols
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?
unchained

untethered

frozen

chained
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 left her behind

what they really want with her

whether they actually exist or not

why they came to England
19 What two metaphors does the speaker use to describe her internal state?
the frozen lake and hurricane within her

the frozen lake and trees 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?
care for and caress the narrator

heal wounds and abate tears

cause chaos and destruction

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

isolation and belonging

blindness and sight

light and dark
22 What action word is NOT present within the seventh stanza?
following

riding

aligning

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

remind her to be grounded

shake her foundations

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

powerful, angry

mild, rainy

depressing, moody
25 What literary device is most prominent in the middle section of the poem?
rhetorical question

metaphor

oxymoron

simile

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