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

Cartoons

Thrillers
2 Which historical event might the poem be alluding to?

The civilian casualties of World War II

European colonization of Africa

Apartheid in South Africa

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

The animals

The dowry

The sea

The cook-pot
4 What is the poem's stanzaic structure?

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

Ten couplets

Three quatrains and a couplet

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets
5 Which word serves the most clearly onomatopoetic function in the poem?

"lap-lapping"

"shouts"

"hum"

"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

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC
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

Apostrophe

Metaphor
10 Who is the poem's speaker?

Adena

Aku's son

The speaker is unidentified

Aku
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?

Song

Hum

Drumbeat

Roar
13 What is the poem's meter?

Anapestic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

It has no consistent meter

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

D

N

E

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

Internal rhyme

Rhetorical Question

Assonance

Consonance
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"

"At home the sea is in the town"

"The sea eats the land at home"

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

Cooking-pot

Garden

Mother

Ruined house
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?

Carry

Collect

Run

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

Friday

Monday

Sunday

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

hearths

porches

homes

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

Photographs

Firewood

Ladles

Walls
24 Who is the poem's protagonist?

The ancestors

The rescuers

The sea

The townspeople
25 What is the poem's major conflict?

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

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

Adena and Aku's argument

The man's negotiations with the sea

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