Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?

Guyana

French Guiana

Suriname

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 Silver Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose
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?

simile

oxymoron

onomatopoeia

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

iambic pentameter

blank verse

common/ballad verse

free verse
7 What literary device is NOT present within the poem?

simile

irony

metaphor

rhetorical question
8 What literary device is present within the last stanza?

rhetorical question

personification

simile

metaphor
9 What is the FIRST simile present in the poem?

comparing the wind to a ghost

comparing the hurricane to the landscape

comparing the trees to whales

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

angry, vengeful

longing, pensive

calm, zen

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

Shango

none

Oya

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

havoc

tempest

ancestral

spectre
13 Who is Hattie?

a Yoruban god

the speaker's mother

the speaker

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

the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere

England

on a ship

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

Huracan

Hattie

the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed

Grace Nichols
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?

untethered

unchained

chained

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

brought her closer to the landscape

brought her closer to her ancestors

showed her the fierceness of nature

reassured her she was in the right place
18 What does the speaker first want to know from the gods?

what they really want with her

why they came to England

whether they actually exist or not

why they left her behind
19 What two metaphors does the speaker use to describe her internal state?

the frozen lake and trees within her

the hurricane and tongues within her

the frozen lake and hurricane within her

the winds and mystery of storm within her
20 What do the "old tongues" do in "new places," according the third stanza?

care for and caress the narrator

heal wounds and abate tears

incite reflection and epiphany

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

isolation and belonging

stormy and calm weather

light and dark

blindness and sight
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?

remind her to be grounded

shake her foundations

melt the frozen lake within her

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

powerful, angry

exciting, anticipated

mild, rainy

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

metaphor

oxymoron

simile

rhetorical question

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