Hurricane Hits England Quizzes

Hurricane Hits England Quiz

1 In what country was Nichols born?
Suriname

French Guiana

England

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 Prose

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry
4 Who does the speaker NOT call upon to speak to her?
Oya

Aganju

Shango

Huracan
5 What literary device is present within the fifth stanza?
personification

onomatopoeia

oxymoron

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

common/ballad verse

blank verse

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

irony

rhetorical question

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

simile

personification

metaphor
9 What is the FIRST simile present in the poem?
comparing the gods to the hurricane

comparing the trees to whales

comparing the hurricane to the landscape

comparing the wind to a ghost
10 What adjectives could be used to describe the tone of the poem?
angry, vengeful

peaceful, joyous

longing, pensive

calm, zen
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?
tempest

spectre

havoc

ancestral
13 Who is Hattie?
the speaker's cousin

the speaker

the speaker's mother

a Yoruban god
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?
Huracan

Grace Nichols

the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed

Hattie
16 How does the speaker describe her heart?
chained

unchained

frozen

untethered
17 What effect did the hurricane have on the woman, as described in the first stanza?
reassured her she was in the right place

showed her the fierceness of nature

brought her closer to the landscape

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

why they came to England

why they left her behind

what they really want with her
19 What two metaphors does the speaker use to describe her internal state?
the hurricane and tongues within her

the winds and mystery of storm 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?
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

light and dark

stormy and calm weather

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

following

trailing

aligning
23 What does the narrator NOT invite the storm to do?
remind her to be grounded

persuade her to move back home

melt the frozen lake within her

shake her foundations
24 How is the storm described in the first stanza?
mild, rainy

powerful, angry

depressing, moody

exciting, anticipated
25 What literary device is most prominent in the middle section of the poem?
simile

oxymoron

metaphor

rhetorical question

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