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

Cartoons

Thrillers

Folk songs
2 Which historical event might the poem be alluding to?

Apartheid in South Africa

The 1927 Mississippi river flood

European colonization of Africa

The civilian casualties of World War II
3 Which of the following is personified in this poem?

The cook-pot

The sea

The dowry

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

Three quatrains and a couplet

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

Ten couplets

Two quintets, a quatrain, and an eighteen-line stanza
5 Which word serves the most clearly onomatopoetic function in the poem?

"shouts"

"hum"

"struggling"

"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?

It has no consistent rhyme scheme

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA

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

Impatient

Whimsical

Angry

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

Simile

Ekphrasis

Apostrophe

Metaphor
10 Who is the poem's speaker?

Aku

Aku's son

The speaker is unidentified

Adena
11 Who is the poem's antagonist?

The sea

There is no antagonist

The men

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

Hum

Song

Roar

Drumbeat
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"?

N

C

E

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

Internal rhyme

Rhetorical Question

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 sea acts maliciously even though it acts without intent

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"

"The sea eats the land at home"

"It came one day at the dead of night"

"At home the sea is in the town"
18 Fill in the blank: "Aku stood outside where her _____ stood"

Ruined house

Garden

Mother

Cooking-pot
19 What is the poem's setting?

A series of beach towns worldwide

A future version of an unnamed African city

New York City

A coastal town
20 Which of the following verbs does Awoonor NOT use to describe the sea?

Run

Collect

Trap

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

Sunday

Friday

Tuesday

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?

Photographs

Ladles

Walls

Firewood
24 Who is the poem's protagonist?

The townspeople

The sea

The rescuers

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

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

Adena and Aku's argument

The man's negotiations with the sea

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

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