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

Jane Austen

Her brother Bramwell

Her father
2 What is the poem's central theme?
Hope

Fate

Eternity

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

Wuthering Heights

Clarissa

Pride and Prejudice
4 When was "Hope" published?
1896

1865

1841

1846
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?
The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Wuthering Heights
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Sestets

Quatrains

Couplets

Tercets
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABCB

ABBA

ABBC

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

Victorian poetry

War epic

Pastoral poetry
9 Which of the following publications reviewed Brontë's poetry favorably?
The Bostonian

The Bradford Daily

The Athenaeum

The London Times
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 timid friend

As a two-faced liar
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"And she turned her face away!"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Hope was but a timid friend;"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"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 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?
Comforts the speaker

Sings

Turns away from the speaker

Flies away
17 When does Hope stop singing?
When the speaker tries to talk to her

When the speaker tries to sing with her

When the speaker observes her

When bad luck befalls the speaker
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

Anne and Charlotte

Beth and Meg
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 loss of joy

The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

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

The speaker confronts hope

Hope comforts the speaker

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment
23 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Two

Five

Twenty

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

Verbal agreement

Harvest

War
25 Which of the following is a motif in the poem?
Debate

Watching

Love

Music

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