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

Cartoons

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

Apartheid in South Africa

The civilian casualties of World War II

European colonization of Africa

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

The sea

The dowry

The animals

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

Three quatrains and a couplet

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

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

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

"struggling"

"shouts"

"hum"

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

Fowls

Roosters

Pigs

Sheep
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

It has no consistent rhyme scheme

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC

AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA
8 What is the poem's tone?

Mournful

Angry

Whimsical

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

Simile

Ekphrasis

Metaphor

Apostrophe
10 Who is the poem's speaker?

The speaker is unidentified

Adena

Aku's son

Aku
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

Song

Roar

Hum
13 What is the poem's meter?

Anapestic tetrameter

It has no consistent meter

Iambic pentameter

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

N

C

D

E
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 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 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
17 What is the poem's refrain?

"At home the sea is in the town"

"The sea eats the land at home"

"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"

Cooking-pot

Garden

Ruined house

Mother
19 What is the poem's setting?

A series of beach towns worldwide

New York City

A future version of an unnamed African city

A coastal town
20 Which of the following verbs does Awoonor NOT use to describe the sea?

Trap

Collect

Run

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

Monday

Sunday

Tuesday

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

piles

porches

homes

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

Photographs

Ladles

Walls

Firewood
24 Who is the poem's protagonist?

The ancestors

The sea

The rescuers

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

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

Adena and Aku's argument

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