Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?
England

Suriname

Guyana

French Guiana
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

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?
Shango

Huracan

Aganju

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

onomatopoeia

simile

oxymoron
6 What is the meter within "Hurricane Hits England"?
blank verse

free verse

iambic pentameter

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

metaphor

irony

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

metaphor

rhetorical question

personification
9 What is the FIRST simile present in the poem?
comparing the hurricane to the landscape

comparing the trees to whales

comparing the gods to the hurricane

comparing the wind to a ghost
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

Oya

Huracan

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

ancestral

havoc

tempest
13 Who is Hattie?
a Yoruban god

the speaker

the speaker's mother

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

England

the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere

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

Hattie

Grace Nichols

Huracan
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?
frozen

unchained

chained

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 the landscape

brought her closer to her ancestors

reassured her she was in the right place
18 What does the speaker first want to know from the gods?
what they really want with her

why they came to England

whether they actually exist or not

why they left her behind
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 hurricane and tongues within her

the winds and mystery of storm within her
20 What do the "old tongues" do in "new places," according the third stanza?
cause chaos and destruction

heal wounds and abate tears

incite reflection and epiphany

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

stormy and calm weather

blindness and sight

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

riding

following

trailing
23 What does the narrator NOT invite the storm to do?
remind her to be grounded

persuade her to move back home

shake her foundations

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

depressing, moody

mild, rainy

powerful, angry
25 What literary device is most prominent in the middle section of the poem?
metaphor

simile

oxymoron

rhetorical question

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