Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?

French Guiana

Guyana

Suriname

England
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

France

Ireland

The United States

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

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

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

Huracan

Aganju

Shango

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

personification

oxymoron

simile

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

blank verse

iambic pentameter

free verse

common/ballad verse
7 What literary device is NOT present within the poem?

rhetorical question

simile

metaphor

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

simile

rhetorical question

metaphor

personification
9 What is the FIRST simile present in the poem?

comparing the wind to a ghost

comparing the trees to whales

comparing the gods to the hurricane

comparing the hurricane to the landscape
10 What adjectives could be used to describe the tone of the poem?

longing, pensive

calm, zen

peaceful, joyous

angry, vengeful
11 To which god does the speaker align herself?

Shango

none

Huracan

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

ancestral

tempest

havoc

spectre
13 Who is Hattie?

the speaker's mother

the speaker

a Yoruban god

the speaker's cousin
14 Where can the speaker reasonably be assumed to be?

England

on a ship

Guyana

the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere
15 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?

Huracan

Grace Nichols

Hattie

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

frozen

untethered

unchained

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

brought her closer to her ancestors

brought her closer to the landscape

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?

why they left her behind

why they came to England

what they really want with her

whether they actually exist or not
19 What two metaphors does the speaker use to describe her internal state?

the frozen lake and trees within her

the hurricane and tongues within her

the winds and mystery of storm within her

the frozen lake and hurricane 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

incite reflection and epiphany

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

blindness and sight

isolation and belonging

stormy and calm weather

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

aligning

riding

trailing

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

melt the frozen lake within her

persuade her to move back home

shake her foundations

remind her to be grounded
24 How is the storm described in the first stanza?

exciting, anticipated

mild, rainy

powerful, angry

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

simile

metaphor

rhetorical question

oxymoron

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