Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?

Guyana

Suriname

French Guiana

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 Silver Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

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

Oya

Shango

Aganju

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

personification

onomatopoeia

oxymoron

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

iambic pentameter

blank verse

common/ballad verse

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

irony

rhetorical question

simile

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

personification

rhetorical question

metaphor

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?

peaceful, joyous

longing, pensive

calm, zen

angry, vengeful
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?

ancestral

tempest

havoc

spectre
13 Who is Hattie?

the speaker's cousin

the speaker

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

on a ship

England
15 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?

the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed

Grace Nichols

Huracan

Hattie
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?

untethered

unchained

frozen

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

brought her closer to her ancestors

reassured her she was in the right place

showed her the fierceness of nature

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

why they left her behind

what they really want with her
19 What two metaphors does the speaker use to describe her internal state?

the frozen lake and trees within her

the winds and mystery of storm within her

the frozen lake and hurricane 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

cause chaos and destruction

incite reflection and epiphany

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

blindness and sight

light and dark

stormy and calm weather

isolation and belonging
22 What action word is NOT present within the seventh stanza?

trailing

riding

following

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

shake her foundations

remind her to be grounded

persuade her to move back home

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

mild, rainy

powerful, angry

depressing, moody

exciting, anticipated
25 What literary device is most prominent in the middle section of the poem?

oxymoron

simile

rhetorical question

metaphor

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