1 In what country was Nichols born? French Guiana Suriname Guyana England 2 To what country did Nichols immigrate? France Ireland The United Kingdom The United States 3 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021? Queen's Gold Medal for Prose Commonwealth Poetry Prize Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry Queen's Gold 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 onomatopoeia oxymoron personification 6 What is the meter within "Hurricane Hits England"? common/ballad verse blank verse free 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? simile rhetorical question personification metaphor 9 What is the FIRST simile present in the poem? comparing the wind to a ghost comparing the gods to the hurricane comparing the trees to whales comparing the hurricane to the landscape 10 What adjectives could be used to describe the tone of the poem? peaceful, joyous longing, pensive calm, zen angry, vengeful 11 To which god does the speaker align herself? Oya none Huracan Shango 12 Which of these vocabulary words is NOT present within the text? havoc ancestral tempest spectre 13 Who is Hattie? the speaker the speaker's cousin the speaker's mother a Yoruban god 14 Where can the speaker reasonably be assumed to be? Guyana England on a ship the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere 15 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem? Hattie the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed Grace Nichols Huracan 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 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 why they came to England what they really want with her why they left her behind 19 What two metaphors does the speaker use to describe her internal state? the winds and mystery of storm within her the hurricane and tongues within her the frozen lake and trees within her the frozen lake and hurricane within her 20 What do the "old tongues" do in "new places," according the third stanza? incite reflection and epiphany heal wounds and abate tears cause chaos and destruction care for and caress the narrator 21 What is the central contrast within the fourth stanza? light and dark isolation and belonging blindness and sight stormy and calm weather 22 What action word is NOT present within the seventh stanza? aligning riding following trailing 23 What does the narrator NOT invite the storm to do? persuade her to move back home shake her foundations melt the frozen lake within her remind her to be grounded 24 How is the storm described in the first stanza? mild, rainy exciting, anticipated powerful, angry depressing, moody 25 What literary device is most prominent in the middle section of the poem? simile metaphor rhetorical question oxymoron
