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

Jane Austen

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

Hope

Eternity

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

Pride and Prejudice

House of the Seven Gables

Clarissa
4 When was "Hope" published?
1841

1865

1846

1896
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

Wuthering Heights

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

Quatrains

Couplets

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

ABBA

ABCB

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

Pastoral poetry

Victorian poetry

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?
Despair

Joy

Religious fervor

Hope
11 How does the speaker describe hope in the poem?
As an unreliable narrator

As a timid friend

As a two-faced liar

As a fairweather companion
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"And she turned her face away!"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

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

Mirrors

Eyes

Glass
15 What does the speaker mean when she says that Hope is a "false guard"?
That Hope only observes her, but never tries to help her

That Hope never carries a shield

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 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

Mysterious

Unreliable

Dependable
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Mary and Lydia

Elinor and Marianne

Beth and Meg

Anne and Charlotte
20 What is the best description of the tone of poem?
Cold

Angry

Puzzling

Somber
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 difficulties with religious devotion

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

Hope comforts the speaker

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

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

Five

Ten

Twenty
24 What does the word "strife" mean in the poem?
War

Bitter conflict

Verbal agreement

Harvest
25 Which of the following is a motif in the poem?
Music

Watching

Debate

Love

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