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 sister Charlotte

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

Fate

Hope

Eternity

Despair
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?

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

Wuthering Heights

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

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

Tercets

Sestets

Quatrains

Couplets
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBC

ABAB

ABCB

ABBA
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Victorian poetry

Pastoral poetry

War epic

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

The Bradford Daily

The Bostonian

The Athenaeum

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

Religious fervor

Despair

Hope

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

As a two-faced liar

As an unreliable narrator

As a fairweather companion

As a timid friend
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?

"And she turned her face away!"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"
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

Eyes

Mirrors
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 is a double agent

That Hope never carries a shield

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

Comforts the speaker

Flies away

Sings

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

When the speaker tries to talk to her

When bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker tries to sing with her

When the speaker observes her
18 How does the speaker characterize her relationship with Hope?

Loving

Dependable

Mysterious

Unreliable
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Mary and Lydia

Anne and Charlotte

Elinor and Marianne

Beth and Meg
20 What is the best description of the tone of poem?

Cold

Puzzling

Angry

Somber
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

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

Hope comforts the speaker

The speaker confronts hope

The speaker vanishes

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

Two

Ten

Twenty

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

Bitter conflict

War

Verbal agreement

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

Debate

Watching

Love

Music

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