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 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 animals

The sea

The dowry

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

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

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

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

"struggling"

"shouts"

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

Fowls

Roosters

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

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC

It has no consistent rhyme scheme

AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA
8 What is the poem's tone?
Impatient

Whimsical

Mournful

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

Simile

Metaphor

Apostrophe
10 Who is the poem's speaker?
Adena

Aku's son

Aku

The speaker is unidentified
11 Who is the poem's antagonist?
The men

The goats

There is no antagonist

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

Hum

Roar

Drumbeat
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"?
D

E

N

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

Consonance

Rhetorical Question

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

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"

"The sea eats the land at home"

"It came one day at the dead of night"

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

Cooking-pot

Ruined house

Garden
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?
Run

Collect

Carry

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

Friday

Sunday

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

hearths

homes

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

Firewood

Walls

Photographs
24 Who is the poem's protagonist?
The townspeople

The ancestors

The sea

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

The man's negotiations with the sea

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

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

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