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

Cartoons

Early English novels

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?
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?
"hum"

"shouts"

"struggling"

"lap-lapping"
6 Fill in the blank "Goats and _____ were struggling in the water"
Sheep

Pigs

Roosters

Fowls
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA

It has no consistent rhyme scheme

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

Angry

Whimsical

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

Apostrophe

Metaphor

Simile
10 Who is the poem's speaker?
The speaker is unidentified

Adena

Aku

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

The sea

The men

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

Hum

Song

Drumbeat
13 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic pentameter

It has no consistent meter

Anapestic tetrameter

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

N

E

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

Consonance

Rhetorical Question

Assonance
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?
"It came one day at the dead of night"

"Her gods have deserted her"

"The sea eats the land at home"

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

Garden

Mother

Cooking-pot
19 What is the poem's setting?
A series of beach towns worldwide

A coastal town

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?
Collect

Run

Carry

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

Tuesday

Monday

Friday
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?
Firewood

Ladles

Photographs

Walls
24 Who is the poem's protagonist?
The ancestors

The sea

The townspeople

The rescuers
25 What is the poem's major conflict?
The townspeople's attempt to recover from the storm's aftermath

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

The man's negotiations with the sea

Adena and Aku's argument

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