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?
Early English novels

Folk songs

Thrillers

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

The civilian casualties of World War II

The 1927 Mississippi river flood

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

The animals

The dowry

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

Three quatrains and a couplet

Ten couplets

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

"hum"

"struggling"

"shouts"
6 Fill in the blank "Goats and _____ were struggling in the water"
Sheep

Fowls

Roosters

Pigs
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABA ABA CDC CDC EFFE EFFE ABA ABA

It has no consistent rhyme scheme

ABBA ABBA CDCCDC

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

Mournful

Impatient

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

Ekphrasis

Metaphor

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

Adena

Aku

The speaker is unidentified
11 Who is the poem's antagonist?
There is no antagonist

The goats

The men

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

Song

Drumbeat

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

Anapestic tetrameter

It has no consistent meter

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

D

N

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

Rhetorical Question

Assonance

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

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?
"Her gods have deserted her"

"The sea eats the land at home"

"At home the sea is in the town"

"It came one day at the dead of night"
18 Fill in the blank: "Aku stood outside where her _____ stood"
Cooking-pot

Garden

Ruined house

Mother
19 What is the poem's setting?
A series of beach towns worldwide

A future version of an unnamed African city

New York City

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

Collect

Run

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

Monday

Tuesday

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

piles

hearths

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

Firewood

Walls

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

The townspeople

The sea

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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