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 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 sea

The cook-pot

The animals

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

Ten couplets

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

Three quatrains and a couplet

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

"hum"

"lap-lapping"

"struggling"

"shouts"
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

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

AB AB AB CB CB CB EB EB EB ABBA
8 What is the poem's tone?

Mournful

Angry

Impatient

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

Simile

Ekphrasis

Metaphor

Apostrophe
10 Who is the poem's speaker?

Aku

Adena

The speaker is unidentified

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

The goats

There is no antagonist

The sea

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

Song

Drumbeat

Hum

Roar
13 What is the poem's meter?

Trochaic pentameter

It has no consistent meter

Anapestic tetrameter

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

Consonance

Internal rhyme

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 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

The town's residents wish for a fresh start, but end up facing a disaster
17 What is the poem's refrain?

"The sea eats the land at home"

"It came one day at the dead of night"

"At home the sea is in the town"

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

Garden

Cooking-pot

Ruined house

Mother
19 What is the poem's setting?

New York City

A future version of an unnamed African city

A coastal town

A series of beach towns worldwide
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?

Tuesday

Friday

Monday

Sunday
22 Fill in the blank: "Collecting the firewood from the _____"

porches

homes

hearths

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

Photographs

Walls

Firewood

Ladles
24 Who is the poem's protagonist?

The rescuers

The sea

The townspeople

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

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

The man's negotiations with the sea

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