Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?

Guyana

England

Suriname

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 Silver Medal for Poetry

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

Aganju

Huracan

Shango

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

simile

personification

oxymoron

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

iambic pentameter

free verse

blank verse

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

irony

simile

rhetorical question

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 gods to the hurricane

comparing the trees to whales

comparing the wind to a ghost

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?

Huracan

Oya

none

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

ancestral

tempest

spectre

havoc
13 Who is Hattie?

the speaker

the speaker's cousin

a Yoruban god

the speaker's mother
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

Grace Nichols

Hattie

Huracan
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?

untethered

chained

frozen

unchained
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

showed her the fierceness of nature

brought her closer to her ancestors
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 hurricane within her

the hurricane and tongues within her

the frozen lake and trees 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

care for and caress the narrator

incite reflection and epiphany

heal wounds and abate tears
21 What is the central contrast within the fourth stanza?

stormy and calm weather

blindness and sight

light and dark

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

aligning

trailing

riding

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

persuade her to move back home

melt the frozen lake within her

remind her to be grounded

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

exciting, anticipated

powerful, angry

depressing, moody

mild, rainy
25 What literary device is most prominent in the middle section of the poem?

rhetorical question

oxymoron

metaphor

simile

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