First Fig Quizzes

First Fig Quiz

1 What is the poet's full name?

Vicenta Millay

Edna Millay

Edna Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay
2 What is the title of the poem?

Second Fig

Candlelight

Light

First Fig
3 Finish this quote: "My candle___"

burns at both ends

will not last the night

gives me such a fright

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

4

5

6

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

couplet

sextet

quatrain

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

She was too lazy to write more.

She wanted to show that couplets are the superior form.

The poem is incomplete.

The form demonstrates the content.
7 What do figs represent?

Patience, caution

Sweetness, enjoyment of life, femininity

Poison, shame, and disgust

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

The speaker's life

Religion

Immortality

The speaker's faith
9 What does the idiom of a candle burning at both ends mean?

Wit and elegance.

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

The intelligence to create more light.

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

Lends

Friends

Hens

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

Sight

Might

Kite

Light
12 What is the meter?

Blank verse

Free verse

Common meter

Iambic pentameter
13 What number of alternating syllables per line does this poem have?

The syllables per line do not alternate

Eight and six

Five and four

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

Alliteration

Rhyme

Metaphor

Personification
15 Which is not a theme in the poem?

Challenging Gender Norms

Light and Vitality

Seizing the Night

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

Beautiful

Gorgeous

Lovely

Radiant
17 What does the light represent?

The speaker's vitality and passion

Electricity

The coming of day

Danger
18 What is significant about the speaker having foes?

The speaker was antisocial.

The speaker hated everyone.

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

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

A period

An exclamation

A dash

A question
20 What is a spondee?

A foot consisting of two unstressed syllables.

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

An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
21 Which collection was this poem originally published in?

Collected Poems

A Few Figs From Thistles

Second April

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

1920

1923

1925

1922
23 When was Edna St. Vincent Millay born?

1880

1900

1915

1892
24 Where did Millay live her adult life?

Vermont

Florida

Maine

New York
25 What is the tone of the poem?

Bitter, Wrathful, Seeking

Assertive, Celebratory, Passionate

Pessimistic, Fearful, Angry

Joyful, Airy, Shrewd

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