First Fig Quizzes

First Fig Quiz

1 What is the poet's full name?

Edna Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna Millay

Vicenta Millay
2 What is the title of the poem?

Candlelight

First Fig

Light

Second Fig
3 Finish this quote: "My candle___"

gives me such a fright

belongs to my foes and my friends

will not last the night

burns at both ends
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?

couplet

quintet

quatrain

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.

She wanted to show that couplets are the superior form.

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

Sweetness, enjoyment of life, femininity

Rottenness, bitterness in life

Patience, caution

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

The speaker's life

The speaker's faith

Immortality

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

A person who hates studying.

The intelligence to create more light.

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

Wit and elegance.
10 What word rhymes with "ends" in the poem?

Friends

Sends

Hens

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

Light

Sight

Might

Kite
12 What is the meter?

Iambic pentameter

Common meter

Blank verse

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

Eight and six

Five and four

Eight and seven

The syllables per line do not alternate
14 Which poetic device is not used in the poem?

Personification

Rhyme

Alliteration

Metaphor
15 Which is not a theme in the poem?

Seizing the Night

Light and Vitality

Challenging Gender Norms

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

Gorgeous

Lovely

Radiant

Beautiful
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 question

An exclamation

A dash

A period
20 What is a spondee?

A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.

A foot consisting of two unstressed syllables.

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

An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
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?

1923

1922

1925

1920
23 When was Edna St. Vincent Millay born?

1892

1915

1900

1880
24 Where did Millay live her adult life?

Vermont

Florida

New York

Maine
25 What is the tone of the poem?

Bitter, Wrathful, Seeking

Joyful, Airy, Shrewd

Assertive, Celebratory, Passionate

Pessimistic, Fearful, Angry

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