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?
Cartoons

Early English novels

Folk songs

Thrillers
2 Which historical event might the poem be alluding to?
The 1927 Mississippi river flood

European colonization of Africa

The civilian casualties of World War II

Apartheid in South Africa
3 Which of the following is personified in this poem?
The dowry

The sea

The animals

The cook-pot
4 What is the poem's stanzaic structure?
Ten couplets

Three quatrains and a couplet

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

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

"struggling"

"hum"

"lap-lapping"
6 Fill in the blank "Goats and _____ were struggling in the water"
Fowls

Sheep

Pigs

Roosters
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA

It has no consistent rhyme scheme

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA
8 What is the poem's tone?
Mournful

Angry

Whimsical

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

Simile

Metaphor

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

Adena

The speaker is unidentified

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

The goats

There is no antagonist

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

Hum

Drumbeat

Roar
13 What is the poem's meter?
Anapestic tetrameter

It has no consistent meter

Iambic pentameter

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

C

E

N
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 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
17 What is the poem's refrain?
"It came one day at the dead of night"

"Her gods have deserted her"

"The sea eats the land at home"

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

Cooking-pot

Mother

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

A future version of an unnamed African city

New York City

A series of beach towns worldwide
20 Which of the following verbs does Awoonor NOT use to describe the sea?
Trap

Collect

Carry

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

Friday

Sunday

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

homes

piles

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

Photographs

Ladles

Firewood
24 Who is the poem's protagonist?
The sea

The townspeople

The rescuers

The ancestors
25 What is the poem's major conflict?
The townspeople's attempt to recover from the storm's aftermath

The man's negotiations with the sea

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

Adena and Aku's argument

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