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?

The United Kingdom

France

Ireland

The United States
3 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

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?

personification

simile

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?

rhetorical question

simile

metaphor

irony
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 trees to whales

comparing the wind to a ghost

comparing the gods to the hurricane
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?

Huracan

Shango

Oya

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

tempest

spectre

ancestral

havoc
13 Who is Hattie?

the speaker

the speaker's mother

a Yoruban god

the speaker's cousin
14 Where can the speaker reasonably be assumed to be?

on a ship

Guyana

England

the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere
15 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?

the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed

Huracan

Grace Nichols

Hattie
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?

unchained

chained

frozen

untethered
17 What effect did the hurricane have on the woman, as described in the first stanza?

brought her closer to the landscape

showed her the fierceness of nature

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

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 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

cause chaos and destruction

heal wounds and abate tears

care for and caress the narrator
21 What is the central contrast within the fourth stanza?

light and dark

stormy and calm weather

isolation and belonging

blindness and sight
22 What action word is NOT present within the seventh stanza?

riding

following

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?

powerful, angry

exciting, anticipated

depressing, moody

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

simile

oxymoron

metaphor

rhetorical question

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