Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?

England

Guyana

Suriname

French Guiana
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?

The United States

France

Ireland

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?

Huracan

Oya

Aganju

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

oxymoron

personification

onomatopoeia

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

blank verse

common/ballad verse

free verse

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

metaphor

simile

rhetorical question

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

simile

personification

metaphor

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

comparing the trees to whales

comparing the wind to a ghost

comparing the gods to the hurricane

comparing the hurricane to the landscape
10 What adjectives could be used to describe the tone of the poem?

peaceful, joyous

angry, vengeful

calm, zen

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?

ancestral

tempest

spectre

havoc
13 Who is Hattie?

a Yoruban god

the speaker's cousin

the speaker's mother

the speaker
14 Where can the speaker reasonably be assumed to be?

Guyana

the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere

on a ship

England
15 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?

Grace Nichols

Hattie

the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed

Huracan
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 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?

what they really want with her

why they left her behind

why they came to England

whether they actually exist or not
19 What two metaphors does the speaker use to describe her internal state?

the frozen lake and hurricane within her

the winds and mystery of storm within her

the frozen lake and trees within her

the hurricane and tongues within her
20 What do the "old tongues" do in "new places," according the third stanza?

incite reflection and epiphany

care for and caress the narrator

heal wounds and abate tears

cause chaos and destruction
21 What is the central contrast within the fourth stanza?

blindness and sight

light and dark

stormy and calm weather

isolation and belonging
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?

shake her foundations

melt the frozen lake within her

persuade her to move back home

remind her to be grounded
24 How is the storm described in the first stanza?

powerful, angry

mild, rainy

exciting, anticipated

depressing, moody
25 What literary device is most prominent in the middle section of the poem?

metaphor

rhetorical question

oxymoron

simile

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