The Sea Eats the Land At Home Quizzes

The Sea Eats the Land At Home Quiz

1 The poem's early stanzas are reminiscent of which genre?
Early English novels

Folk songs

Thrillers

Cartoons
2 Which historical event might the poem be alluding to?
Apartheid in South Africa

The 1927 Mississippi river flood

The civilian casualties of World War II

European colonization of Africa
3 Which of the following is personified in this poem?
The sea

The cook-pot

The animals

The dowry
4 What is the poem's stanzaic structure?
Two quintets, a quatrain, and an eighteen-line stanza

Ten couplets

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

Three quatrains and a couplet
5 Which word serves the most clearly onomatopoetic function in the poem?
"shouts"

"struggling"

"lap-lapping"

"hum"
6 Fill in the blank "Goats and _____ were struggling in the water"
Roosters

Sheep

Fowls

Pigs
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It has no consistent rhyme scheme

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA
8 What is the poem's tone?
Impatient

Mournful

Whimsical

Angry
9 Which of the following devices appears in the poem's title?
Simile

Ekphrasis

Apostrophe

Metaphor
10 Who is the poem's speaker?
The speaker is unidentified

Aku's son

Adena

Aku
11 Who is the poem's antagonist?
There is no antagonist

The sea

The men

The goats
12 Which of the following is used to describe the sound of the sea?
Hum

Drumbeat

Roar

Song
13 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic pentameter

It has no consistent meter

Anapestic tetrameter

Trochaic pentameter
14 Which sounds produce alliteration in the line "it came one day in the dead of night"?
C

N

D

E
15 Which of the following devices plays a prominent role in the line "The sea eats the land at home"?
Consonance

Internal rhyme

Rhetorical Question

Assonance
16 Which of the following is an example of irony in the poem?
The town's residents wish for a fresh start, but end up facing a disaster

The people have been polluting the sea, but the sea ends up harming them in return

Aku is the most religious person in town but has a crisis of faith

The sea acts maliciously even though it acts without intent
17 What is the poem's refrain?
"Her gods have deserted her"

"It came one day at the dead of night"

"The sea eats the land at home"

"At home the sea is in the town"
18 Fill in the blank: "Aku stood outside where her _____ stood"
Cooking-pot

Garden

Ruined house

Mother
19 What is the poem's setting?
A coastal town

New York City

A series of beach towns worldwide

A future version of an unnamed African city
20 Which of the following verbs does Awoonor NOT use to describe the sea?
Trap

Collect

Run

Carry
21 On which day of the week does the flood take place?
Friday

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday
22 Fill in the blank: "Collecting the firewood from the _____"
hearths

piles

porches

homes
23 Which of the following objects are not mentioned as being destroyed?
Walls

Photographs

Ladles

Firewood
24 Who is the poem's protagonist?
The rescuers

The townspeople

The ancestors

The sea
25 What is the poem's major conflict?
The man's negotiations with the sea

The townspeople's attempt to recover from the storm's aftermath

Adena and Aku's argument

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

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