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?

European colonization of Africa

Apartheid in South Africa

The civilian casualties of World War II

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

The sea

The cook-pot

The animals

The dowry
4 What is the poem's stanzaic structure?

Ten couplets

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

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

Three quatrains and a couplet
5 Which word serves the most clearly onomatopoetic function in the poem?

"lap-lapping"

"shouts"

"hum"

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

Fowls

Pigs

Sheep

Roosters
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

It has no consistent rhyme scheme

AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA

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

Simile

Ekphrasis

Metaphor
10 Who is the poem's speaker?

Aku's son

Aku

Adena

The speaker is unidentified
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?

Drumbeat

Roar

Hum

Song
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"?

C

E

N

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

Consonance

Assonance
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?

"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"

Garden

Cooking-pot

Ruined house

Mother
19 What is the poem's setting?

New York City

A series of beach towns worldwide

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

Carry

Run

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

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

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

homes

porches

piles

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

Ladles

Photographs

Firewood

Walls
24 Who is the poem's protagonist?

The townspeople

The rescuers

The sea

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

The man's negotiations with the sea

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

Adena and Aku's argument

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

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