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

Folk songs

Early English novels

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

The 1927 Mississippi river flood

Apartheid in South Africa

European colonization of Africa

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

The dowry

The sea

The animals

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

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

Three quatrains and a couplet

Ten couplets

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

"struggling"

"shouts"

"lap-lapping"

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

Pigs

Roosters

Sheep

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

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC
8 What is the poem's tone?

Whimsical

Mournful

Angry

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

Metaphor

Apostrophe

Simile

Ekphrasis
10 Who is the poem's speaker?

The speaker is unidentified

Aku's son

Aku

Adena
11 Who is the poem's antagonist?

There is no antagonist

The men

The sea

The goats
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?

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter

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"?

Assonance

Internal rhyme

Rhetorical Question

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 town's residents wish for a fresh start, but end up facing a disaster

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

Aku is the most religious person in town but has a crisis of faith
17 What is the poem's refrain?

"The sea eats the land at home"

"At home the sea is in the town"

"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

Garden

Ruined house

Cooking-pot
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?

Run

Trap

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?

Ladles

Firewood

Walls

Photographs
24 Who is the poem's protagonist?

The rescuers

The sea

The townspeople

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

Adena and Aku's argument

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

The man's negotiations with the sea

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

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