First Fig Quizzes

First Fig Quiz

1 What is the poet's full name?
Edna Millay

Vicenta Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna Vincent Millay
2 What is the title of the poem?
Light

Candlelight

Second Fig

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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?
5

4

6

3
5 What is the name for a stanza with the amount of lines that this poem has?
quatrain

couplet

sextet

quintet
6 Why might have Millay chosen the particular length of this poem to be what it is?
The form demonstrates the content.

She wanted to show that couplets are the superior form.

She was too lazy to write more.

The poem is incomplete.
7 What do figs represent?
Rottenness, bitterness in life

Patience, caution

Poison, shame, and disgust

Sweetness, enjoyment of life, femininity
8 What does the candle represent?
Religion

The speaker's faith

The speaker's life

Immortality
9 What does the idiom of a candle burning at both ends mean?
A fast and intense lifestyle that leads to burnout or death.

The intelligence to create more light.

Wit and elegance.

A person who hates studying.
10 What word rhymes with "ends" in the poem?
Friends

Lends

Sends

Hens
11 What word rhymes with "night" in the poem?
Light

Sight

Might

Kite
12 What is the meter?
Free verse

Common meter

Iambic pentameter

Blank verse
13 What number of alternating syllables per line does this poem have?
Eight and six

The syllables per line do not alternate

Eight and seven

Five and four
14 Which poetic device is not used in the poem?
Alliteration

Metaphor

Rhyme

Personification
15 Which is not a theme in the poem?
Challenging Gender Norms

People-pleasing

Seizing the Night

Light and Vitality
16 How does the speaker describe her light?
Beautiful

Lovely

Gorgeous

Radiant
17 What does the light represent?
The speaker's vitality and passion

Electricity

Danger

The coming of day
18 What is significant about the speaker having foes?
The speaker was antisocial.

It is not relevant.

The speaker hated everyone.

It means that she lived a public, authentic, and controversial lifestyle.
19 What punctuation mark does the poem end with?
A question

A dash

An exclamation

A period
20 What is a spondee?
A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.

An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

A foot consisting of two unstressed syllables.

A foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.
21 Which collection was this poem originally published in?
Collected Poems

Second April

A Few Figs From Thistles

The Ballad of the Harp Weaver
22 When was the collection published?
1923

1925

1920

1922
23 When was Edna St. Vincent Millay born?
1880

1915

1892

1900
24 Where did Millay live her adult life?
New York

Florida

Maine

Vermont
25 What is the tone of the poem?
Assertive, Celebratory, Passionate

Joyful, Airy, Shrewd

Pessimistic, Fearful, Angry

Bitter, Wrathful, Seeking

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