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?
Cartoons

Early English novels

Folk songs

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

The civilian casualties of World War II

European colonization of Africa

The 1927 Mississippi river flood
3 Which of the following is personified in this poem?
The dowry

The cook-pot

The animals

The sea
4 What is the poem's stanzaic structure?
Three quatrains and a couplet

Two quintets, a quatrain, and an eighteen-line stanza

Ten couplets

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets
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

Fowls

Pigs

Roosters
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

It has no consistent rhyme scheme

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC

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?
Metaphor

Apostrophe

Ekphrasis

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

The speaker is unidentified

Adena

Aku
11 Who is the poem's antagonist?
The sea

The goats

There is no antagonist

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

Hum

Drumbeat

Song
13 What is the poem's meter?
It has no consistent meter

Trochaic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter
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"?
Internal rhyme

Consonance

Assonance

Rhetorical Question
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

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

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

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"
Ruined house

Garden

Mother

Cooking-pot
19 What is the poem's setting?
A series of beach towns worldwide

A future version of an unnamed African city

A coastal town

New York City
20 Which of the following verbs does Awoonor NOT use to describe the sea?
Trap

Run

Carry

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

Monday

Sunday

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

hearths

piles

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

Walls

Firewood

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

The townspeople

The ancestors

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

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

Adena and Aku's argument

The man's negotiations with the sea

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