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?
Despair

Fate

Eternity

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

Wuthering Heights

Pride and Prejudice

Clarissa
4 When was "Hope" published?
1841

1846

1865

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

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

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

Tercets

Couplets

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

ABBC

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 Bradford Daily

The London Times

The Athenaeum

The Bostonian
10 What does the speaker personify in the poem?
Hope

Religious fervor

Despair

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

As a fairweather companion

As a timid friend

As an unreliable narrator
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"And she turned her face away!"
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?
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 is never doing a good job of keeping watch

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?
Turns away from the speaker

Flies away

Sings

Comforts the speaker
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?
Mysterious

Unreliable

Dependable

Loving
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Beth and Meg

Mary and Lydia

Anne and Charlotte

Elinor and Marianne
20 What is the best description of the tone of poem?
Somber

Cold

Angry

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

The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope
22 What is the poem's climax?
Hope comforts the speaker

The speaker vanishes

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

The speaker confronts hope
23 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Twenty

Ten

Two

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?
Debate

Music

Watching

Love

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