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

Cartoons

Folk songs
2 Which historical event might the poem be alluding to?
European colonization of Africa

The civilian casualties of World War II

Apartheid in South Africa

The 1927 Mississippi river flood
3 Which of the following is personified in this poem?
The sea

The cook-pot

The animals

The dowry
4 What is the poem's stanzaic structure?
Three quatrains and a couplet

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

Ten couplets

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

"shouts"

"hum"

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

Fowls

Sheep

Pigs
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It has no consistent rhyme scheme

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC

AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA
8 What is the poem's tone?
Mournful

Impatient

Angry

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

Ekphrasis

Metaphor

Apostrophe
10 Who is the poem's speaker?
Aku's son

Aku

Adena

The speaker is unidentified
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?
Drumbeat

Hum

Roar

Song
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"?
C

N

D

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

Assonance

Consonance

Internal rhyme
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?
"Her gods have deserted her"

"At home the sea is in the town"

"It came one day at the dead of night"

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

Garden

Cooking-pot

Ruined house
19 What is the poem's setting?
A future version of an unnamed African city

A coastal town

A series of beach towns worldwide

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

Carry

Run

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

Tuesday

Friday

Monday
22 Fill in the blank: "Collecting the firewood from the _____"
homes

porches

hearths

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

Photographs

Walls

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

The rescuers

The sea

The ancestors
25 What is the poem's major conflict?
Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

The man's negotiations with the sea

Adena and Aku's argument

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

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