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?

The civilian casualties of World War II

The 1927 Mississippi river flood

Apartheid in South Africa

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

The animals

The sea

The cook-pot

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

Three quatrains and a couplet

Ten couplets

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

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

"hum"

"struggling"

"shouts"

"lap-lapping"
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

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC

It has no consistent rhyme scheme
8 What is the poem's tone?

Mournful

Impatient

Whimsical

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

Simile

Metaphor

Ekphrasis

Apostrophe
10 Who is the poem's speaker?

Aku

Aku's son

The speaker is unidentified

Adena
11 Who is the poem's antagonist?

The goats

There is no antagonist

The men

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

It has no consistent meter

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

C

E

N

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

Assonance

Consonance
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

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

The sea acts maliciously even though it acts without intent
17 What is the poem's refrain?

"The sea eats the land at home"

"Her gods have deserted her"

"It came one day at the dead of night"

"At home the sea is in the town"
18 Fill in the blank: "Aku stood outside where her _____ stood"

Ruined house

Garden

Cooking-pot

Mother
19 What is the poem's setting?

New York City

A future version of an unnamed African city

A coastal town

A series of beach towns worldwide
20 Which of the following verbs does Awoonor NOT use to describe the sea?

Carry

Trap

Run

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

Tuesday

Monday

Friday

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

hearths

homes

piles

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

Photographs

Ladles

Walls

Firewood
24 Who is the poem's protagonist?

The townspeople

The rescuers

The ancestors

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

The man's negotiations with the sea

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

Adena and Aku's argument

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

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