Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quizzes

Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quiz

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

Jane Austen

Her sister Charlotte

Her father

Her brother Bramwell
2 What is the poem's central theme?

Fate

Hope

Eternity

Despair
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?

Pride and Prejudice

Wuthering Heights

Clarissa

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

1865

1846

1841

1896
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

Wuthering Heights
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Couplets

Quatrains

Tercets

Sestets
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABCB

ABBC

ABBA

ABAB
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Victorian poetry

Pastoral poetry

Love sonnet

War epic
9 Which of the following publications reviewed Brontë's poetry favorably?

The London Times

The Bostonian

The Athenaeum

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

Hope

Despair

Joy

Religious fervor
11 How does the speaker describe hope in the poem?

As a timid friend

As a two-faced liar

As an unreliable narrator

As a fairweather companion
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?

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

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

Mirrors

Relics

Glass

Eyes
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 is a double agent

That Hope only observes her, but never tries to help her
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?

Turns away from the speaker

Comforts the speaker

Sings

Flies away
17 When does Hope stop singing?

When the speaker tries to sing with her

When bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker tries to talk to her

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

Loving

Unreliable

Mysterious

Dependable
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Elinor and Marianne

Anne and Charlotte

Mary and Lydia

Beth and Meg
20 What is the best description of the tone of poem?

Cold

Somber

Angry

Puzzling
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?

The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

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

The speaker confronts hope

Hope comforts the speaker

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

The speaker vanishes
23 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Five

Two

Twenty

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

Harvest

War

Bitter conflict

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

Music

Watching

Love

Debate

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