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 Kingdom

Ireland

The United States

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

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

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

Huracan

Shango

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

oxymoron

simile

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

iambic pentameter

free verse

blank 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?
metaphor

personification

rhetorical question

simile
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?
none

Shango

Oya

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

tempest

ancestral

spectre
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?
Hattie

the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed

Huracan

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

chained

frozen

untethered
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?
whether they actually exist or not

what they really want with her

why they came to England

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

the winds and mystery of storm within her

the frozen lake and trees within her

the frozen lake and hurricane within her
20 What do the "old tongues" do in "new places," according the third stanza?
incite reflection and epiphany

heal wounds and abate tears

cause chaos and destruction

care for and caress the narrator
21 What is the central contrast within the fourth stanza?
isolation and belonging

light and dark

stormy and calm weather

blindness and sight
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

melt the frozen lake within her

remind her to be grounded

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

exciting, anticipated

depressing, moody

mild, rainy
25 What literary device is most prominent in the middle section of the poem?
oxymoron

metaphor

simile

rhetorical question

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