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

Early English novels

Cartoons

Folk songs
2 Which historical event might the poem be alluding to?
The civilian casualties of World War II

Apartheid in South Africa

European colonization of Africa

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

The cook-pot

The sea

The animals
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?
"hum"

"lap-lapping"

"shouts"

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

Sheep

Pigs

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

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

It has no consistent rhyme scheme

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

Angry

Whimsical

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

Metaphor

Simile

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

Aku's son

Adena

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

The goats

There is no antagonist

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

Hum

Drumbeat

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

It has no consistent meter

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter
14 Which sounds produce alliteration in the line "it came one day in the dead of night"?
E

D

C

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

Internal rhyme

Rhetorical Question

Assonance
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

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
17 What is the poem's refrain?
"Her gods have deserted her"

"It came one day at the dead of night"

"At home the sea is in the town"

"The sea eats the land at home"
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

New York City

A series of beach towns worldwide

A future version of an unnamed African city
20 Which of the following verbs does Awoonor NOT use to describe the sea?
Run

Carry

Trap

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

Tuesday

Monday

Sunday
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?
Firewood

Walls

Ladles

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

The ancestors

The rescuers

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

The man's negotiations with the sea

Adena and Aku's argument

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

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