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?
Folk songs

Early English novels

Thrillers

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

European colonization of Africa

Apartheid in South Africa

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

The dowry

The cook-pot

The animals
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?
"shouts"

"struggling"

"lap-lapping"

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

Pigs

Fowls

Roosters
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

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC

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

Ekphrasis

Metaphor

Apostrophe
10 Who is the poem's speaker?
Adena

Aku

Aku's son

The speaker is unidentified
11 Who is the poem's antagonist?
There is no antagonist

The sea

The men

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

Roar

Drumbeat

Hum
13 What is the poem's meter?
It has no consistent meter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic pentameter

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

N

C

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

Assonance

Rhetorical Question

Internal rhyme
16 Which of the following is an example of irony in the poem?
Aku is the most religious person in town but has a crisis of faith

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
17 What is the poem's refrain?
"At home the sea is in the town"

"Her gods have deserted her"

"The sea eats the land at home"

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

Mother

Cooking-pot

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

A series of beach towns worldwide

New York City

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

Run

Collect

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

Tuesday

Friday

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

homes

porches

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

Walls

Firewood

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

The sea

The townspeople

The ancestors
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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