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

Cartoons

Early English novels

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 animals

The cook-pot

The sea

The dowry
4 What is the poem's stanzaic structure?
Two quintets, a quatrain, and an eighteen-line stanza

Ten couplets

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

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

"hum"

"lap-lapping"

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

Pigs

Roosters

Sheep
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It has no consistent rhyme scheme

AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

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

Mournful

Angry

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

Metaphor

Ekphrasis

Apostrophe
10 Who is the poem's speaker?
Aku

The speaker is unidentified

Adena

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

The goats

The men

There is no antagonist
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

D

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

Consonance

Internal rhyme

Assonance
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 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

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"

"It came one day at the dead of night"

"Her gods have deserted her"
18 Fill in the blank: "Aku stood outside where her _____ stood"
Mother

Cooking-pot

Ruined house

Garden
19 What is the poem's setting?
New York City

A future version of an unnamed African city

A series of beach towns worldwide

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

Run

Carry

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 _____"
porches

hearths

piles

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

Ladles

Photographs

Walls
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's attempt to outsmart the sea

Adena and Aku's argument

The man's negotiations with the sea

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