First Fig Quizzes

First Fig Quiz

1 What is the poet's full name?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Vicenta Millay

Edna Vincent Millay

Edna Millay
2 What is the title of the poem?

Light

Candlelight

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3 Finish this quote: "My candle___"

burns at both ends

gives me such a fright

will not last the night

belongs to my foes and my friends
4 How many lines are in the poem?

3

4

6

5
5 What is the name for a stanza with the amount of lines that this poem has?

quatrain

couplet

quintet

sextet
6 Why might have Millay chosen the particular length of this poem to be what it is?

The poem is incomplete.

She was too lazy to write more.

The form demonstrates the content.

She wanted to show that couplets are the superior form.
7 What do figs represent?

Patience, caution

Poison, shame, and disgust

Sweetness, enjoyment of life, femininity

Rottenness, bitterness in life
8 What does the candle represent?

The speaker's life

Immortality

The speaker's faith

Religion
9 What does the idiom of a candle burning at both ends mean?

A person who hates studying.

Wit and elegance.

A fast and intense lifestyle that leads to burnout or death.

The intelligence to create more light.
10 What word rhymes with "ends" in the poem?

Lends

Friends

Hens

Sends
11 What word rhymes with "night" in the poem?

Sight

Kite

Might

Light
12 What is the meter?

Iambic pentameter

Blank verse

Common meter

Free verse
13 What number of alternating syllables per line does this poem have?

The syllables per line do not alternate

Eight and seven

Five and four

Eight and six
14 Which poetic device is not used in the poem?

Metaphor

Personification

Alliteration

Rhyme
15 Which is not a theme in the poem?

Light and Vitality

Seizing the Night

Challenging Gender Norms

People-pleasing
16 How does the speaker describe her light?

Beautiful

Gorgeous

Lovely

Radiant
17 What does the light represent?

Danger

The coming of day

The speaker's vitality and passion

Electricity
18 What is significant about the speaker having foes?

It means that she lived a public, authentic, and controversial lifestyle.

The speaker was antisocial.

The speaker hated everyone.

It is not relevant.
19 What punctuation mark does the poem end with?

A dash

An exclamation

A question

A period
20 What is a spondee?

An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

A foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.

A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.

A foot consisting of two unstressed syllables.
21 Which collection was this poem originally published in?

Second April

Collected Poems

The Ballad of the Harp Weaver

A Few Figs From Thistles
22 When was the collection published?

1920

1925

1923

1922
23 When was Edna St. Vincent Millay born?

1915

1900

1892

1880
24 Where did Millay live her adult life?

Maine

Vermont

New York

Florida
25 What is the tone of the poem?

Joyful, Airy, Shrewd

Bitter, Wrathful, Seeking

Assertive, Celebratory, Passionate

Pessimistic, Fearful, Angry

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