First Fig Quizzes

First Fig Quiz

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

Vicenta Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Second Fig

First Fig

Light
3 Finish this quote: "My candle___"
burns at both ends

belongs to my foes and my friends

will not last the night

gives me such a fright
4 How many lines are in the poem?
5

3

6

4
5 What is the name for a stanza with the amount of lines that this poem has?
sextet

quatrain

couplet

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.

She was too lazy to write more.

The poem is incomplete.

The form demonstrates the content.
7 What do figs represent?
Sweetness, enjoyment of life, femininity

Poison, shame, and disgust

Rottenness, bitterness in life

Patience, caution
8 What does the candle represent?
The speaker's life

Immortality

The speaker's faith

Religion
9 What does the idiom of a candle burning at both ends mean?
A person who hates studying.

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

Wit and elegance.

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?
Sight

Might

Kite

Light
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 seven

The syllables per line do not alternate

Eight and six

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

Personification

Alliteration

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

Light and Vitality

People-pleasing

Seizing the Night
16 How does the speaker describe her light?
Lovely

Gorgeous

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 was antisocial.

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

It is not relevant.

The speaker hated everyone.
19 What punctuation mark does the poem end with?
An exclamation

A question

A dash

A period
20 What is a spondee?
A foot consisting of two unstressed syllables.

An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

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

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

The Ballad of the Harp Weaver

Collected Poems

Second April
22 When was the collection published?
1923

1920

1925

1922
23 When was Edna St. Vincent Millay born?
1892

1900

1880

1915
24 Where did Millay live her adult life?
Vermont

New York

Maine

Florida
25 What is the tone of the poem?
Pessimistic, Fearful, Angry

Assertive, Celebratory, Passionate

Joyful, Airy, Shrewd

Bitter, Wrathful, Seeking

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