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 sister Charlotte

Jane Austen

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

Fate

Despair

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

Clarissa

Pride and Prejudice

House of the Seven Gables
4 When was "Hope" published?
1896

1865

1841

1846
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?
Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Wuthering Heights

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

Tercets

Sestets

Couplets
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBC

ABAB

ABBA

ABCB
8 What is the genre of the poem?
War epic

Pastoral poetry

Love sonnet

Victorian poetry
9 Which of the following publications reviewed Brontë's poetry favorably?
The Bostonian

The Bradford Daily

The Athenaeum

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

Despair

Religious fervor

Joy
11 How does the speaker describe hope in the poem?
As a timid friend

As a fairweather companion

As a two-faced liar

As an unreliable narrator
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"And she turned her face away!"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Hope was but a timid friend;"

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

Glass

Eyes

Relics
15 What does the speaker mean when she says that Hope is a "false guard"?
That Hope is never doing a good job of keeping watch

That Hope never carries a shield

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

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

Comforts the speaker

Turns away from the speaker

Sings
17 When does Hope stop singing?
When bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker tries to sing with her

When the speaker observes her

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

Loving

Mysterious

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

Elinor and Marianne

Beth and Meg

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

Puzzling

Cold

Angry
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?
The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's loss of joy
22 What is the poem's climax?
Hope comforts the speaker

The speaker vanishes

The speaker confronts hope

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

Ten

Five

Twenty
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?
Music

Love

Watching

Debate

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