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

Early English novels

Thrillers

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

The 1927 Mississippi river flood

Apartheid in South Africa

The civilian casualties of World War II

European colonization of Africa
3 Which of the following is personified in this poem?

The cook-pot

The sea

The dowry

The animals
4 What is the poem's stanzaic structure?

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

Three quatrains and a couplet

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

Ten couplets
5 Which word serves the most clearly onomatopoetic function in the poem?

"shouts"

"struggling"

"lap-lapping"

"hum"
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

Whimsical

Angry

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

Ekphrasis

Simile

Apostrophe

Metaphor
10 Who is the poem's speaker?

Aku's son

Adena

Aku

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

The men

The goats

The sea

There is no antagonist
12 Which of the following is used to describe the sound of the sea?

Drumbeat

Song

Hum

Roar
13 What is the poem's meter?

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter

It has no consistent meter

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

N

C

E

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

Rhetorical Question

Internal rhyme

Consonance

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

Aku is the most religious person in town but has a crisis of faith

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
17 What is the poem's refrain?

"It came one day at the dead of night"

"Her gods have deserted her"

"At home the sea is in the town"

"The sea eats the land at home"
18 Fill in the blank: "Aku stood outside where her _____ stood"

Cooking-pot

Mother

Garden

Ruined house
19 What is the poem's setting?

A series of beach towns worldwide

A future version of an unnamed African city

New York City

A coastal town
20 Which of the following verbs does Awoonor NOT use to describe the sea?

Carry

Run

Collect

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

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

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?

Firewood

Walls

Ladles

Photographs
24 Who is the poem's protagonist?

The sea

The townspeople

The ancestors

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

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

The man's negotiations with the sea

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

Adena and Aku's argument

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