Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?
French Guiana

Suriname

Guyana

England
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
Ireland

The United States

The United Kingdom

France
3 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?
Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry
4 Who does the speaker NOT call upon to speak to her?
Shango

Aganju

Huracan

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

oxymoron

onomatopoeia

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

iambic pentameter

blank verse

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

irony

rhetorical question

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

rhetorical question

simile

metaphor
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?
none

Oya

Huracan

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

ancestral

spectre

tempest
13 Who is Hattie?
the speaker's cousin

the speaker's mother

the speaker

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

England

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?
untethered

unchained

frozen

chained
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?
why they left her behind

whether they actually exist or not

what they really want with her

why they came to England
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?
heal wounds and abate tears

care for and caress the narrator

cause chaos and destruction

incite reflection and epiphany
21 What is the central contrast within the fourth stanza?
blindness and sight

isolation and belonging

light and dark

stormy and calm weather
22 What action word is NOT present within the seventh stanza?
following

riding

aligning

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

shake her foundations

persuade her to move back home

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?
oxymoron

rhetorical question

simile

metaphor

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