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

Her sister Charlotte

Her father

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

Eternity

Fate

Despair
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?
Clarissa

House of the Seven Gables

Wuthering Heights

Pride and Prejudice
4 When was "Hope" published?
1865

1846

1896

1841
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?
Wuthering Heights

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

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

Couplets

Tercets

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

ABAB

ABCB

ABBC
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Pastoral poetry

Love sonnet

Victorian poetry

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

The Bostonian

The London Times

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

Hope

Despair

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

As a fairweather companion

As a two-faced liar

As a timid friend
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"And she turned her face away!"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"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

Eyes

Relics
15 What does the speaker mean when she says that Hope is a "false guard"?
That Hope is a double agent

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

That Hope is never doing a good job of keeping watch

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

Sings

Comforts the speaker

Turns away from the speaker
17 When does Hope stop singing?
When the speaker tries to sing with her

When the speaker tries to talk to her

When the speaker observes her

When bad luck befalls the speaker
18 How does the speaker characterize her relationship with Hope?
Dependable

Loving

Unreliable

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

Anne and Charlotte

Mary and Lydia

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

Somber

Angry

Cold
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 unbalanced relationship with Hope

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

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

The speaker vanishes

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

Twenty

Five

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?
Love

Watching

Debate

Music

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