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

Thrillers

Folk songs

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

Apartheid in South Africa

The civilian casualties of World War II

European colonization of Africa
3 Which of the following is personified in this poem?
The dowry

The animals

The cook-pot

The sea
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?
"struggling"

"lap-lapping"

"shouts"

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

Fowls

Pigs

Sheep
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

Whimsical

Angry

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

Ekphrasis

Apostrophe

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

Aku

The speaker is unidentified

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

The men

There is no antagonist

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

Roar

Song

Hum
13 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic pentameter

It has no consistent meter

Trochaic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter
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"?
Rhetorical Question

Consonance

Internal rhyme

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 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

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"
Mother

Cooking-pot

Ruined house

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

A coastal town

A series of beach towns worldwide

A future version of an unnamed African city
20 Which of the following verbs does Awoonor NOT use to describe the sea?
Run

Carry

Trap

Collect
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 _____"
homes

porches

piles

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

Photographs

Ladles

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

The ancestors

The townspeople

The rescuers
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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