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?
Folk songs

Early English novels

Thrillers

Cartoons
2 Which historical event might the poem be alluding to?
The civilian casualties of World War II

The 1927 Mississippi river flood

European colonization of Africa

Apartheid in South Africa
3 Which of the following is personified in this poem?
The sea

The dowry

The cook-pot

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

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

Three quatrains and a couplet

Ten couplets
5 Which word serves the most clearly onomatopoetic function in the poem?
"shouts"

"lap-lapping"

"struggling"

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

Roosters

Sheep

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

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC
8 What is the poem's tone?
Angry

Impatient

Mournful

Whimsical
9 Which of the following devices appears in the poem's title?
Ekphrasis

Simile

Apostrophe

Metaphor
10 Who is the poem's speaker?
Aku's son

The speaker is unidentified

Aku

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

The sea

The goats

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

Roar

Drumbeat

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

Anapestic tetrameter

Trochaic pentameter

It has no consistent meter
14 Which sounds produce alliteration in the line "it came one day in the dead of night"?
D

N

C

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

Consonance

Rhetorical Question

Assonance
16 Which of the following is an example of irony in the poem?
The sea acts maliciously even though it acts without intent

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

The town's residents wish for a fresh start, but end up facing a disaster

Aku is the most religious person in town but has a crisis of faith
17 What is the poem's refrain?
"It came one day at the dead of night"

"The sea eats the land at home"

"At home the sea is in the town"

"Her gods have deserted her"
18 Fill in the blank: "Aku stood outside where her _____ stood"
Ruined house

Cooking-pot

Garden

Mother
19 What is the poem's setting?
New York City

A future version of an unnamed African city

A series of beach towns worldwide

A coastal town
20 Which of the following verbs does Awoonor NOT use to describe the sea?
Collect

Carry

Run

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

Monday

Tuesday

Sunday
22 Fill in the blank: "Collecting the firewood from the _____"
homes

hearths

porches

piles
23 Which of the following objects are not mentioned as being destroyed?
Ladles

Photographs

Firewood

Walls
24 Who is the poem's protagonist?
The sea

The townspeople

The ancestors

The rescuers
25 What is the poem's major conflict?
Adena and Aku's argument

The man's negotiations with the sea

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

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

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