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?

Early English novels

Thrillers

Folk songs

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

The 1927 Mississippi river flood

European colonization of Africa

Apartheid in South Africa

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

The dowry

The animals

The sea

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

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

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

Three quatrains and a couplet

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

"struggling"

"lap-lapping"

"shouts"

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

Fowls

Sheep

Pigs

Roosters
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

It has no consistent rhyme scheme

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA

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

Mournful

Impatient

Whimsical

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

Metaphor

Ekphrasis

Apostrophe

Simile
10 Who is the poem's speaker?

Adena

The speaker is unidentified

Aku

Aku's son
11 Who is the poem's antagonist?

There is no antagonist

The goats

The men

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

Roar

Drumbeat

Song

Hum
13 What is the poem's meter?

Trochaic pentameter

It has no consistent meter

Anapestic tetrameter

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

N

E

D

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

Internal rhyme

Consonance

Assonance

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

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

The sea acts maliciously even though it acts without intent

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

Cooking-pot

Garden

Ruined house
19 What is the poem's setting?

A coastal town

A series of beach towns worldwide

A future version of an unnamed African city

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

Run

Trap

Collect

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

Sunday

Monday

Friday

Tuesday
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?

Walls

Ladles

Photographs

Firewood
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

The man's negotiations with the sea

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

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

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