Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quizzes

Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quiz

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

Jane Austen

Her brother Bramwell

Her father

Her sister Charlotte
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

Clarissa

Wuthering Heights

Pride and Prejudice
4 When was "Hope" published?

1841

1846

1896

1865
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

Wuthering Heights

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

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

Quatrains

Couplets

Sestets

Tercets
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABCB

ABBC

ABBA

ABAB
8 What is the genre of the poem?

War epic

Victorian poetry

Pastoral poetry

Love sonnet
9 Which of the following publications reviewed Brontë's poetry favorably?

The Athenaeum

The Bradford Daily

The Bostonian

The London Times
10 What does the speaker personify in the poem?

Joy

Religious fervor

Hope

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

As a two-faced liar

As an unreliable narrator

As a timid friend

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?

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Hope was but a timid friend;"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"
14 Which of these images is a symbol in the poem?

Mirrors

Glass

Relics

Eyes
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 never carries a shield

That Hope is a double agent

That Hope only observes her, but never tries to help her
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?

Turns away from the speaker

Sings

Comforts the speaker

Flies away
17 When does Hope stop singing?

When the speaker tries to talk to her

When the speaker observes her

When bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker tries to sing with her
18 How does the speaker characterize her relationship with Hope?

Dependable

Mysterious

Loving

Unreliable
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?

Somber

Cold

Puzzling

Angry
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?

The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

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

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

The speaker vanishes

Hope comforts the speaker

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

Five

Two

Ten

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

Verbal agreement

War

Bitter conflict

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

Debate

Love

Music

Watching

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