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 sister Charlotte

Her father

Her brother Bramwell
2 What is the poem's central theme?
Eternity

Despair

Hope

Fate
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?
Pride and Prejudice

House of the Seven Gables

Clarissa

Wuthering Heights
4 When was "Hope" published?
1841

1865

1846

1896
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?
Wuthering Heights

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

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

Tercets

Sestets

Couplets
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABAB

ABBC

ABBA

ABCB
8 What is the genre of the poem?
War epic

Love sonnet

Pastoral poetry

Victorian poetry
9 Which of the following publications reviewed Brontë's poetry favorably?
The Athenaeum

The Bostonian

The London Times

The Bradford Daily
10 What does the speaker personify in the poem?
Despair

Hope

Joy

Religious fervor
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?
"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"And she turned her face away!"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Hope was but a timid friend;"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"
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 is never doing a good job of keeping watch

That Hope never carries a shield

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

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

Turns away from the speaker

Flies away

Comforts the speaker
17 When does Hope stop singing?
When the speaker observes her

When bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker tries to talk to her

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

Loving

Unreliable

Mysterious
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Elinor and Marianne

Beth and Meg

Anne and Charlotte

Mary and Lydia
20 What is the best description of the tone of poem?
Angry

Cold

Puzzling

Somber
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?
The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion
22 What is the poem's climax?
The speaker vanishes

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

Hope comforts the speaker

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

Five

Twenty

Two
24 What does the word "strife" mean in the poem?
Harvest

Verbal agreement

War

Bitter conflict
25 Which of the following is a motif in the poem?
Watching

Music

Love

Debate

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