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

Cartoons

Early English novels

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

Apartheid in South Africa

European colonization of Africa

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

The animals

The sea

The dowry
4 What is the poem's stanzaic structure?
Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

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

Ten couplets

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

"hum"

"lap-lapping"

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

Sheep

Fowls

Pigs
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA

It has no consistent rhyme scheme

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC

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

Whimsical

Angry

Mournful
9 Which of the following devices appears in the poem's title?
Apostrophe

Simile

Metaphor

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

Aku

The speaker is unidentified

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

The goats

The sea

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

Song

Hum

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

It has no consistent meter

Iambic pentameter

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

N

E

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

Assonance

Rhetorical Question

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

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 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"

"Her gods have deserted her"

"The sea eats the land at home"

"It came one day at the dead of night"
18 Fill in the blank: "Aku stood outside where her _____ stood"
Garden

Cooking-pot

Mother

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

A coastal town

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?
Collect

Carry

Run

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

Tuesday

Monday

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

hearths

piles

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

Firewood

Photographs

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

The ancestors

The rescuers

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

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

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

The man's negotiations with the sea

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