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?

Fate

Hope

Eternity

Despair
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?

Wuthering Heights

House of the Seven Gables

Pride and Prejudice

Clarissa
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 Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

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

Couplets

Tercets

Sestets

Quatrains
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABAB

ABBA

ABBC

ABCB
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Victorian poetry

Pastoral poetry

Love sonnet

War epic
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?

Hope

Joy

Religious fervor

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

As a timid friend

As a two-faced liar

As a fairweather companion

As an unreliable narrator
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"And she turned her face away!"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

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

Glass

Eyes

Relics

Mirrors
15 What does the speaker mean when she says that Hope is a "false guard"?

That Hope never carries a shield

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

That Hope is a double agent

That Hope is never doing a good job of keeping watch
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?

Sings

Comforts the speaker

Flies away

Turns away from the speaker
17 When does Hope stop singing?

When the speaker tries to sing with her

When the speaker observes her

When bad luck befalls the speaker

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

Loving

Mysterious

Dependable

Unreliable
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Elinor and Marianne

Mary and Lydia

Beth and Meg

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

Puzzling

Cold

Somber

Angry
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's struggle with loss

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?

Five

Two

Ten

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

Bitter conflict

Harvest

Verbal agreement

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

Music

Love

Debate

Watching

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