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

Folk songs

Thrillers

Cartoons
2 Which historical event might the poem be alluding to?
Apartheid in South Africa

The civilian casualties of World War II

The 1927 Mississippi river flood

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

The cook-pot

The animals

The sea
4 What is the poem's stanzaic structure?
Two quintets, a quatrain, and an eighteen-line stanza

Ten couplets

Three quatrains and a couplet

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets
5 Which word serves the most clearly onomatopoetic function in the poem?
"struggling"

"shouts"

"lap-lapping"

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

Fowls

Sheep

Pigs
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA ABBA CDCCDC

AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

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

Angry

Impatient

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

Metaphor

Ekphrasis

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

Aku

Adena

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

The sea

The goats

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

Song

Drumbeat

Roar
13 What is the poem's meter?
Trochaic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

It has no consistent meter
14 Which sounds produce alliteration in the line "it came one day in the dead of night"?
D

C

E

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

Assonance

Internal rhyme

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

The town's residents wish for a fresh start, but end up facing a disaster

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

The sea acts maliciously even though it acts without intent
17 What is the poem's refrain?
"The sea eats the land at home"

"It came one day at the dead of night"

"Her gods have deserted her"

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

Ruined house

Garden

Mother
19 What is the poem's setting?
A coastal town

A future version of an unnamed African city

New York City

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

Trap

Run

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

Sunday

Tuesday

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

porches

hearths

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

Ladles

Firewood

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

The ancestors

The rescuers

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

The man's negotiations with the sea

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

Adena and Aku's argument

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