Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?

French Guiana

Suriname

England

Guyana
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

The United Kingdom

The United States

France

Ireland
3 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold 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?

onomatopoeia

simile

oxymoron

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

common/ballad verse

free verse

blank verse

iambic pentameter
7 What literary device is NOT present within the poem?

simile

irony

rhetorical question

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

simile

metaphor

personification

rhetorical question
9 What is the FIRST simile present in the poem?

comparing the hurricane to the landscape

comparing the wind to a ghost

comparing the gods to the hurricane

comparing the trees to whales
10 What adjectives could be used to describe the tone of the poem?

angry, vengeful

calm, zen

longing, pensive

peaceful, joyous
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

spectre

tempest

havoc
13 Who is Hattie?

the speaker

the speaker's mother

the speaker's cousin

a Yoruban god
14 Where can the speaker reasonably be assumed to be?

England

Guyana

the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere

on a ship
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?

unchained

untethered

frozen

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

reassured her she was in the right place

brought her closer to her ancestors

brought her closer to the landscape

showed her the fierceness of nature
18 What does the speaker first want to know from the gods?

whether they actually exist or not

why they left her behind

why they came to England

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 frozen lake and hurricane 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?

cause chaos and destruction

incite reflection and epiphany

heal wounds and abate tears

care for and caress the narrator
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?

following

aligning

riding

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

shake her foundations

persuade her to move back home

remind her to be grounded

melt the frozen lake within her
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?

rhetorical question

simile

metaphor

oxymoron

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