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

Early English novels

Folk songs

Cartoons
2 Which historical event might the poem be alluding to?
European colonization of Africa

Apartheid in South Africa

The civilian casualties of World War II

The 1927 Mississippi river flood
3 Which of the following is personified in this poem?
The sea

The cook-pot

The dowry

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

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets

Three quatrains and a couplet

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

"shouts"

"hum"

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

Fowls

Roosters

Pigs
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?
Mournful

Impatient

Whimsical

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

Simile

Metaphor

Ekphrasis
10 Who is the poem's speaker?
The speaker is unidentified

Aku's son

Adena

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

The goats

There is no antagonist

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

Roar

Song

Drumbeat
13 What is the poem's meter?
Trochaic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

It has no consistent meter

Anapestic tetrameter
14 Which sounds produce alliteration in the line "it came one day in the dead of night"?
E

D

C

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

Assonance

Consonance

Rhetorical Question
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 sea acts maliciously even though it acts without intent

The town's residents wish for a fresh start, but end up facing a disaster
17 What is the poem's refrain?
"Her gods have deserted her"

"The sea eats the land at home"

"It came one day at the dead of night"

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

Garden

Mother

Cooking-pot
19 What is the poem's setting?
A future version of an unnamed African city

A series of beach towns worldwide

New York City

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

Trap

Collect

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

Sunday

Monday

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

porches

piles

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

Ladles

Photographs

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

The sea

The townspeople

The ancestors
25 What is the poem's major conflict?
The man's negotiations with the sea

Adena and Aku's argument

The townspeople's attempt to recover from the storm's aftermath

Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

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