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

Folk songs

Thrillers

Early English novels
2 Which historical event might the poem be alluding to?

The civilian casualties of World War II

The 1927 Mississippi river flood

Apartheid in South Africa

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

The cook-pot

The animals

The dowry

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

Three quatrains and a couplet

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

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

Ten couplets
5 Which word serves the most clearly onomatopoetic function in the poem?

"hum"

"shouts"

"struggling"

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

Fowls

Sheep

Roosters

Pigs
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?

Whimsical

Impatient

Mournful

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

Ekphrasis

Metaphor

Apostrophe

Simile
10 Who is the poem's speaker?

Aku

Aku's son

The speaker is unidentified

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?

Drumbeat

Hum

Song

Roar
13 What is the poem's meter?

Anapestic tetrameter

It has no consistent meter

Trochaic pentameter

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

N

D

E

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

Rhetorical Question

Internal rhyme

Assonance

Consonance
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 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

The sea acts maliciously even though it acts without intent
17 What is the poem's refrain?

"Her gods have deserted her"

"At home the sea is in the town"

"It came one day at the dead of night"

"The sea eats the land at home"
18 Fill in the blank: "Aku stood outside where her _____ stood"

Ruined house

Cooking-pot

Mother

Garden
19 What is the poem's setting?

New York City

A series of beach towns worldwide

A future version of an unnamed African city

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

Carry

Collect

Trap

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

Tuesday

Friday

Monday

Sunday
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?

Ladles

Photographs

Firewood

Walls
24 Who is the poem's protagonist?

The ancestors

The townspeople

The rescuers

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

Adena and Aku's argument

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

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