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

Her father

Jane Austen

Her sister Charlotte
2 What is the poem's central theme?

Fate

Despair

Hope

Eternity
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?

Clarissa

Pride and Prejudice

House of the Seven Gables

Wuthering Heights
4 When was "Hope" published?

1896

1846

1865

1841
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Wuthering Heights

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Sestets

Couplets

Quatrains

Tercets
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABAB

ABBC

ABCB

ABBA
8 What is the genre of the poem?

War epic

Victorian poetry

Pastoral poetry

Love sonnet
9 Which of the following publications reviewed Brontë's poetry favorably?

The Bostonian

The Athenaeum

The London Times

The Bradford Daily
10 What does the speaker personify in the poem?

Religious fervor

Despair

Hope

Joy
11 How does the speaker describe hope in the poem?

As a timid friend

As a fairweather companion

As an unreliable narrator

As a two-faced liar
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"And she turned her face away!"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Hope was but a timid friend;"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"
14 Which of these images is a symbol in the poem?

Mirrors

Relics

Eyes

Glass
15 What does the speaker mean when she says that Hope is a "false guard"?

That Hope never carries a shield

That Hope only observes her, but never tries to help her

That Hope is never doing a good job of keeping watch

That Hope is a double agent
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?

Comforts the speaker

Flies away

Sings

Turns away from the speaker
17 When does Hope stop singing?

When bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker observes her

When the speaker tries to talk to her

When the speaker tries to sing with her
18 How does the speaker characterize her relationship with Hope?

Mysterious

Dependable

Unreliable

Loving
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?

Puzzling

Cold

Somber

Angry
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?

The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion
22 What is the poem's climax?

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

The speaker confronts hope

The speaker vanishes

Hope comforts the speaker
23 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Two

Twenty

Ten

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

War

Bitter conflict

Harvest

Verbal agreement
25 Which of the following is a motif in the poem?

Debate

Watching

Music

Love

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