Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quizzes

Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quiz

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

Her father

Her brother Bramwell

Jane Austen
2 What is the poem's central theme?
Hope

Eternity

Despair

Fate
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?
House of the Seven Gables

Pride and Prejudice

Wuthering Heights

Clarissa
4 When was "Hope" published?
1896

1841

1865

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

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

Wuthering Heights

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Couplets

Tercets

Sestets

Quatrains
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABCB

ABAB

ABBC

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

Pastoral poetry

War epic

Victorian poetry
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?
Hope

Joy

Religious fervor

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

As an unreliable narrator

As a fairweather companion

As a two-faced liar
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"And she turned her face away!"

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

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"Hope was but a timid friend;"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"
14 Which of these images is a symbol in the poem?
Glass

Mirrors

Relics

Eyes
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 a double agent

That Hope is never doing a good job of keeping watch
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?
Flies away

Comforts the speaker

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

Unreliable

Dependable

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?
Cold

Puzzling

Angry

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

The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's loss of joy
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?
Five

Twenty

Ten

Two
24 What does the word "strife" mean in the poem?
Harvest

War

Verbal agreement

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

Music

Debate

Love

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