Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quizzes

Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quiz

1 Who first read Brontë's poems and encouraged her to publish them?
Her brother Bramwell

Her sister Charlotte

Jane Austen

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

Eternity

Despair

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

Clarissa

Wuthering Heights

Pride and Prejudice
4 When was "Hope" published?
1865

1896

1846

1841
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?
The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

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

Quatrains

Tercets

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

ABCB

ABBC

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

Pastoral poetry

War epic

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

The Bradford Daily

The Bostonian

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

Joy

Hope

Despair
11 How does the speaker describe hope in the poem?
As a fairweather companion

As an unreliable narrator

As a two-faced liar

As a timid friend
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"And she turned her face away!"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Hope was but a timid friend;"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"
14 Which of these images is a symbol in the poem?
Relics

Mirrors

Glass

Eyes
15 What does the speaker mean when she says that Hope is a "false guard"?
That Hope is a double agent

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
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?
Turns away from the speaker

Comforts the speaker

Flies away

Sings
17 When does Hope stop singing?
When bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker tries to sing with her

When the speaker observes her

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

Loving

Unreliable

Dependable
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Anne and Charlotte

Beth and Meg

Elinor and Marianne

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

Somber

Cold

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

The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

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

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

The speaker vanishes

Hope comforts the speaker
23 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Twenty

Five

Two

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

Harvest

Bitter conflict

Verbal agreement
25 Which of the following is a motif in the poem?
Music

Debate

Love

Watching

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