First Fig Quizzes

First Fig Quiz

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

Vicenta Millay

Edna Vincent Millay

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

First Fig

Second Fig

Light
3 Finish this quote: "My candle___"
will not last the night

gives me such a fright

burns at both ends

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

5

3

6
5 What is the name for a stanza with the amount of lines that this poem has?
sextet

quintet

quatrain

couplet
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?
Rottenness, bitterness in life

Sweetness, enjoyment of life, femininity

Patience, caution

Poison, shame, and disgust
8 What does the candle represent?
Religion

Immortality

The speaker's faith

The speaker's life
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?
Sends

Lends

Friends

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

Light

Kite

Sight
12 What is the meter?
Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Common meter

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

The syllables per line do not alternate

Eight and six

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

Alliteration

Metaphor

Personification
15 Which is not a theme in the poem?
Seizing the Night

Challenging Gender Norms

People-pleasing

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

Beautiful

Lovely

Radiant
17 What does the light represent?
Electricity

The coming of day

Danger

The speaker's vitality and passion
18 What is significant about the speaker having foes?
The speaker hated everyone.

The speaker was antisocial.

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

A question

An exclamation

A dash
20 What is a spondee?
An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

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

A foot consisting of two unstressed syllables.

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

The Ballad of the Harp Weaver

A Few Figs From Thistles

Collected Poems
22 When was the collection published?
1922

1923

1925

1920
23 When was Edna St. Vincent Millay born?
1915

1900

1892

1880
24 Where did Millay live her adult life?
New York

Maine

Vermont

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

Joyful, Airy, Shrewd

Bitter, Wrathful, Seeking

Pessimistic, Fearful, Angry

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