Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?
Suriname

England

Guyana

French Guiana
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
Ireland

France

The United States

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

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry
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?
simile

personification

onomatopoeia

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

blank verse

common/ballad verse

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

metaphor

simile

rhetorical question
8 What literary device is present within the last stanza?
personification

simile

metaphor

rhetorical question
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?
angry, vengeful

calm, zen

longing, pensive

peaceful, joyous
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

spectre

tempest

havoc
13 Who is Hattie?
the speaker's mother

the speaker's cousin

a Yoruban god

the speaker
14 Where can the speaker reasonably be assumed to be?
the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere

on a ship

Guyana

England
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

chained

unchained

untethered
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 the landscape

brought her closer to her ancestors

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 came to England

what they really want with her

why they left her behind
19 What two metaphors does the speaker use to describe her internal state?
the winds and mystery of storm within her

the hurricane and tongues 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?
cause chaos and destruction

care for and caress the narrator

heal wounds and abate tears

incite reflection and epiphany
21 What is the central contrast within the fourth stanza?
isolation and belonging

blindness and sight

stormy and calm weather

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

following

trailing

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

persuade her to move back home

melt the frozen lake within her

shake her foundations
24 How is the storm described in the first stanza?
depressing, moody

powerful, angry

mild, rainy

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

oxymoron

simile

metaphor

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