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

Jane Austen

Her father

Her sister Charlotte
2 What is the poem's central theme?

Hope

Fate

Despair

Eternity
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?

Pride and Prejudice

House of the Seven Gables

Clarissa

Wuthering Heights
4 When was "Hope" published?

1841

1846

1865

1896
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

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

Wuthering Heights
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Tercets

Quatrains

Sestets

Couplets
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABCB

ABAB

ABBA

ABBC
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Pastoral poetry

Victorian poetry

Love sonnet

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

The Bostonian

The London Times

The Bradford Daily

The Athenaeum
10 What does the speaker personify in the poem?

Religious fervor

Despair

Joy

Hope
11 How does the speaker describe hope in the poem?

As a fairweather companion

As an unreliable narrator

As a timid friend

As a two-faced liar
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"And she turned her face away!"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"Hope was but a timid friend;"
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 is never doing a good job of keeping watch

That Hope is a double agent

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

That Hope never carries a shield
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?

Sings

Turns away from the speaker

Flies away

Comforts the speaker
17 When does Hope stop singing?

When bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker tries to talk to her

When the speaker tries to sing with her

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

Unreliable

Mysterious

Loving

Dependable
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Beth and Meg

Anne and Charlotte

Elinor and Marianne

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

Angry

Puzzling

Cold

Somber
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?

The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope
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?

Twenty

Five

Two

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

Bitter conflict

War

Harvest

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

Love

Debate

Watching

Music

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