Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?
England

French Guiana

Suriname

Guyana
2 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
France

The United Kingdom

Ireland

The United States
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?
Oya

Shango

Huracan

Aganju
5 What literary device is present within the fifth stanza?
onomatopoeia

personification

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?
metaphor

simile

irony

rhetorical question
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 wind to a ghost

comparing the hurricane to the landscape

comparing the gods to the hurricane

comparing the trees to whales
10 What adjectives could be used to describe the tone of the poem?
calm, zen

angry, vengeful

longing, pensive

peaceful, joyous
11 To which god does the speaker align herself?
Oya

Shango

Huracan

none
12 Which of these vocabulary words is NOT present within the text?
spectre

tempest

ancestral

havoc
13 Who is Hattie?
the speaker's cousin

a Yoruban god

the speaker's mother

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

on a ship

the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere

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

Huracan

the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed

Hattie
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?
chained

untethered

unchained

frozen
17 What effect did the hurricane have on the woman, as described in the first stanza?
brought her closer to her ancestors

showed her the fierceness of nature

reassured her she was in the right place

brought her closer to the landscape
18 What does the speaker first want to know from the gods?
whether they actually exist or not

what they really want with her

why they left her behind

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 winds and mystery of storm within her

the frozen lake and hurricane 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?
isolation and belonging

light and dark

blindness and sight

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?
shake her foundations

melt the frozen lake within her

remind her to be grounded

persuade her to move back home
24 How is the storm described in the first stanza?
depressing, moody

exciting, anticipated

powerful, angry

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

simile

rhetorical question

metaphor

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