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

Folk songs

Early English novels
2 Which historical event might the poem be alluding to?
The 1927 Mississippi river flood

Apartheid in South Africa

The civilian casualties of World War II

European colonization of Africa
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?
Three quatrains and a couplet

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

Ten couplets

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

"struggling"

"hum"

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

Fowls

Roosters

Sheep
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA

It has no consistent rhyme scheme

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

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

Mournful

Angry

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

Metaphor

Ekphrasis

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

Adena

Aku's son

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

The men

There is no antagonist

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

Drumbeat

Roar

Hum
13 What is the poem's meter?
Anapestic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic pentameter

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

N

C

D
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

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

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

"At home the sea is in the town"

"Her gods have deserted her"

"It came one day at the dead of night"
18 Fill in the blank: "Aku stood outside where her _____ stood"
Garden

Mother

Ruined house

Cooking-pot
19 What is the poem's setting?
A future version of an unnamed African city

A coastal town

New York City

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

Collect

Carry

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

Monday

Tuesday

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

hearths

piles

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

Photographs

Ladles

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

The rescuers

The ancestors

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

Adena and Aku's argument

The man's negotiations with the sea

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

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