1 Who is the speaker of "Nick and the Candlestick"? A soldier A new mother A Christian zealot A coal miner 2 What does the speaker allude to in the poem's final line? Greek mythology Irish independence Jesus Agriculture 3 How many stanzas are in the poem? 14 10 20 6 4 To what does the poem most frequently allude? Christianity World War I First-wave feminism Fairytales 5 Which line is an example of simile? "I am a miner." "I have hung our cave with roses" "Old cave of calcium" "They weld to me like plums." 6 The speaker addressing her listener as "embryo" is an example of what? Hyperbole Simile Metonymy Synecdoche 7 What does the word "exude" mean? To release or ooze To repeatedly question To leave out or exclude The exit of a cave 8 Who does the speaker address? A coworker A salesman Her child God 9 What does the cave most nearly symbolize? Capitalism Motherhood Nature Illness 10 What is a first communion? A historical period in the eighteenth century A ceremony in the Catholic church An examination in British elementary schools A concept in Marxist theory 11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABCA ABAB It has no regular rhyme scheme ABBA 12 What does the word "Victoriana" allude to? The material rewards of military victory Nothing; it is a nonsense word The material culture and attitudes of the nineteenth century The life of Queen Victoria 13 Which is most prominent in the line "Old cave of calcium"? Sibilance Apostrophe Internal rhyme Alliteration 14 Which tone characterizes the poem's closing stanzas? Hopeful Exhausted Frightened Skeptical 15 What does the candle most nearly symbolize? Intellectual enlightenment The baby The preindustrial age Healing 16 To which object does the speaker compare the mine? A palace A car A womb A pipe 17 What types of stanzas are in the poem? couplets tercets quintains quatrains 18 What does the word "stalactites" mean? formations that hang from a cave ceiling formations that push out of a cave wall formations that rise from a cave floor underwater volcanoes in mines and caves 19 What do roses and rugs most nearly symbolize? Luxury Materialism Domestic safety Inequality 20 What object does the speaker compare fish to? Teeth Hands Knives Pillows 21 Which is not a prominent theme of this poem? Labor and work Motherhood Religion Home and the domestic 22 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "waxy stalactites"? A W S I 23 Which best describes the mine in which the poem is partially set? Spooky and suspenseful Empty and sad Alien and bizarre Unexpectedly lively 24 Which appears in the lines "And the fish, the fish—/Christ! they are panes of ice" Anaphora Simile Personification Metaphor 25 Which line does not contain alliteration? "Atoms that cripple drip" "The blood blooms clean" ""Solid the spaces lean on, envious" "You are the baby in the barn."