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

Her brother Bramwell

Jane Austen

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

Despair

Fate

Eternity
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?
Clarissa

Pride and Prejudice

House of the Seven Gables

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?
Wuthering Heights

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Tercets

Sestets

Couplets

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

ABBC

ABAB

ABCB
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

Joy

Despair

Hope
11 How does the speaker describe hope in the poem?
As a timid friend

As a two-faced liar

As an unreliable narrator

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

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Hope was but a timid friend;"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"
14 Which of these images is a symbol in the poem?
Relics

Glass

Mirrors

Eyes
15 What does the speaker mean when she says that Hope is a "false guard"?
That Hope only observes her, but never tries to help her

That Hope never carries a shield

That Hope is never doing a good job of keeping watch

That Hope is a double agent
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?
Flies away

Sings

Turns away from the speaker

Comforts the speaker
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?
Unreliable

Dependable

Mysterious

Loving
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Mary and Lydia

Beth and Meg

Anne and Charlotte

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

Angry

Somber

Puzzling
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?
The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's struggle with loss
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?
Ten

Five

Two

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?
Watching

Debate

Music

Love

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