Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quizzes

Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quiz

1 Who first read Brontë's poems and encouraged her to publish them?
Her brother Bramwell

Jane Austen

Her sister Charlotte

Her father
2 What is the poem's central theme?
Fate

Hope

Despair

Eternity
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?
Wuthering Heights

Pride and Prejudice

Clarissa

House of the Seven Gables
4 When was "Hope" published?
1841

1896

1865

1846
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Wuthering Heights

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Quatrains

Couplets

Tercets

Sestets
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBA

ABCB

ABAB

ABBC
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Love sonnet

Victorian poetry

War epic

Pastoral poetry
9 Which of the following publications reviewed Brontë's poetry favorably?
The Athenaeum

The Bradford Daily

The Bostonian

The London Times
10 What does the speaker personify in the poem?
Religious fervor

Hope

Despair

Joy
11 How does the speaker describe hope in the poem?
As a two-faced liar

As an unreliable narrator

As a timid friend

As a fairweather companion
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"And she turned her face away!"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"Hope was but a timid friend;"
14 Which of these images is a symbol in the poem?
Glass

Relics

Eyes

Mirrors
15 What does the speaker mean when she says that Hope is a "false guard"?
That Hope only observes her, but never tries to help her

That Hope is a double agent

That Hope is never doing a good job of keeping watch

That Hope never carries a shield
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?
Sings

Flies away

Comforts the speaker

Turns away from the speaker
17 When does Hope stop singing?
When the speaker tries to talk to her

When the speaker tries to sing with her

When bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker observes her
18 How does the speaker characterize her relationship with Hope?
Mysterious

Loving

Unreliable

Dependable
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Anne and Charlotte

Beth and Meg

Elinor and Marianne

Mary and Lydia
20 What is the best description of the tone of poem?
Somber

Puzzling

Angry

Cold
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?
The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's struggle with loss
22 What is the poem's climax?
The speaker confronts hope

Hope comforts the speaker

The speaker vanishes

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment
23 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Two

Twenty

Ten

Five
24 What does the word "strife" mean in the poem?
Bitter conflict

Verbal agreement

War

Harvest
25 Which of the following is a motif in the poem?
Watching

Debate

Love

Music

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