First Fig Quizzes

First Fig Quiz

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

Edna Vincent Millay

Vicenta Millay

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

Second Fig

Candlelight

First Fig
3 Finish this quote: "My candle___"
belongs to my foes and my friends

gives me such a fright

burns at both ends

will not last the night
4 How many lines are in the poem?
6

4

5

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

couplet

quatrain

quintet
6 Why might have Millay chosen the particular length of this poem to be what it is?
She wanted to show that couplets are the superior form.

The poem is incomplete.

She was too lazy to write more.

The form demonstrates the content.
7 What do figs represent?
Poison, shame, and disgust

Patience, caution

Rottenness, bitterness in life

Sweetness, enjoyment of life, femininity
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?
Wit and elegance.

A person who hates studying.

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?
Hens

Friends

Sends

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

Might

Light

Sight
12 What is the meter?
Common meter

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter

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

The syllables per line do not alternate

Five and four

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

Alliteration

Rhyme

Metaphor
15 Which is not a theme in the poem?
Light and Vitality

Challenging Gender Norms

Seizing the Night

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

Beautiful

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.

The speaker hated everyone.

It is not relevant.

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

A dash

A period

An exclamation
20 What is a spondee?
A foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.

An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

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

A Few Figs From Thistles

The Ballad of the Harp Weaver

Collected Poems
22 When was the collection published?
1920

1925

1922

1923
23 When was Edna St. Vincent Millay born?
1915

1900

1892

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

Vermont

Florida

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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