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

Thrillers

Folk songs

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 animals

The dowry

The cook-pot
4 What is the poem's stanzaic structure?
Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

Three quatrains and a couplet

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

Ten couplets
5 Which word serves the most clearly onomatopoetic function in the poem?
"lap-lapping"

"struggling"

"hum"

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

Pigs

Sheep

Fowls
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC

AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA

It has no consistent rhyme scheme
8 What is the poem's tone?
Mournful

Impatient

Whimsical

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

Ekphrasis

Simile

Metaphor
10 Who is the poem's speaker?
Aku's son

The speaker is unidentified

Aku

Adena
11 Who is the poem's antagonist?
The men

There is no antagonist

The sea

The goats
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?
Trochaic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter

It has no consistent meter

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

C

N

E
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 people have been polluting the sea, but the sea ends up harming them in return

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

"The sea eats the land at home"

"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"
Ruined house

Mother

Cooking-pot

Garden
19 What is the poem's setting?
A series of beach towns worldwide

A coastal town

A future version of an unnamed African city

New York City
20 Which of the following verbs does Awoonor NOT use to describe the sea?
Collect

Trap

Run

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

Tuesday

Friday

Monday
22 Fill in the blank: "Collecting the firewood from the _____"
hearths

piles

homes

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

Walls

Photographs

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

The sea

The rescuers

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

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

The man's negotiations with the sea

Adena and Aku's argument

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