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

Thrillers

Early English novels

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

The 1927 Mississippi river flood

European colonization of Africa

The civilian casualties of World War II
3 Which of the following is personified in this poem?
The cook-pot

The animals

The dowry

The sea
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"

"hum"

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

Pigs

Fowls

Roosters
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA ABBA CDCCDC

AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA

It has no consistent rhyme scheme

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA
8 What is the poem's tone?
Mournful

Impatient

Whimsical

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

Simile

Metaphor

Apostrophe
10 Who is the poem's speaker?
Aku

The speaker is unidentified

Adena

Aku's son
11 Who is the poem's antagonist?
The men

The sea

The goats

There is no antagonist
12 Which of the following is used to describe the sound of the sea?
Hum

Song

Roar

Drumbeat
13 What is the poem's meter?
Anapestic tetrameter

It has no consistent meter

Trochaic pentameter

Iambic 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"?
Assonance

Internal rhyme

Consonance

Rhetorical Question
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

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

The town's residents wish for a fresh start, but end up facing a disaster
17 What is the poem's refrain?
"At home the sea is in the town"

"It came one day at the dead of night"

"Her gods have deserted her"

"The sea eats the land at home"
18 Fill in the blank: "Aku stood outside where her _____ stood"
Ruined house

Mother

Garden

Cooking-pot
19 What is the poem's setting?
New York City

A series of beach towns worldwide

A coastal town

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

Carry

Trap

Run
21 On which day of the week does the flood take place?
Tuesday

Sunday

Friday

Monday
22 Fill in the blank: "Collecting the firewood from the _____"
piles

homes

hearths

porches
23 Which of the following objects are not mentioned as being destroyed?
Photographs

Ladles

Firewood

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

The townspeople

The sea

The ancestors
25 What is the poem's major conflict?
Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

Adena and Aku's argument

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

The man's negotiations with the sea

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