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

Cartoons

Early English novels

Folk songs
2 Which historical event might the poem be alluding to?
The civilian casualties of World War II

European colonization of Africa

The 1927 Mississippi river flood

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

The dowry

The cook-pot

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

Three quatrains and a couplet

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

Two twelve-line stanzas and three tercets
5 Which word serves the most clearly onomatopoetic function in the poem?
"shouts"

"struggling"

"lap-lapping"

"hum"
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

ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

It has no consistent rhyme scheme

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC
8 What is the poem's tone?
Angry

Whimsical

Impatient

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

Apostrophe

Metaphor

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

The speaker is unidentified

Aku

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

There is no antagonist

The men

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

Song

Roar

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

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter

It has no consistent meter
14 Which sounds produce alliteration in the line "it came one day in the dead of night"?
D

N

E

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

Assonance

Rhetorical Question

Internal rhyme
16 Which of the following is an example of irony in the poem?
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

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

"The sea eats the land at home"

"Her gods have deserted her"

"At home the sea is in the town"
18 Fill in the blank: "Aku stood outside where her _____ stood"
Cooking-pot

Garden

Mother

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

A future version of an unnamed African city

A series of beach towns worldwide

A coastal town
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?
Friday

Monday

Sunday

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

porches

homes

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?
Adena's attempt to outsmart the sea

Adena and Aku's argument

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

The man's negotiations with the sea

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