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?
Thrillers

Early English novels

Folk songs

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

European colonization of Africa

The 1927 Mississippi river flood

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

The cook-pot

The animals

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

Ten couplets

Three quatrains and a couplet

Two quintets, a quatrain, and an eighteen-line stanza
5 Which word serves the most clearly onomatopoetic function in the poem?
"lap-lapping"

"hum"

"struggling"

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

Sheep

Roosters

Fowls
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?
Whimsical

Angry

Impatient

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

Apostrophe

Simile

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

The speaker is unidentified

Adena

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

The men

There is no antagonist

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

Hum

Roar

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

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic pentameter

It has no consistent meter
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

Rhetorical Question

Assonance

Internal rhyme
16 Which of the following is an example of irony in the poem?
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

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?
"Her gods have deserted her"

"At home the sea is in the town"

"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?
A future version of an unnamed African city

A series of beach towns worldwide

A coastal town

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

Run

Trap

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

Tuesday

Sunday

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

hearths

homes

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 ancestors

The sea

The townspeople

The rescuers
25 What is the poem's major conflict?
The man's negotiations with the sea

Adena and Aku's argument

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

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

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