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 father

Her brother Bramwell

Her sister Charlotte
2 What is the poem's central theme?
Despair

Hope

Fate

Eternity
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?
Wuthering Heights

Clarissa

Pride and Prejudice

House of the Seven Gables
4 When was "Hope" published?
1896

1841

1846

1865
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

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

Quatrains

Couplets

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

ABBC

ABBA

ABCB
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Victorian poetry

War epic

Pastoral poetry

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

The Bradford Daily

The Bostonian

The Athenaeum
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 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,"

"And she turned her face away!"

"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;"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

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

Relics

Eyes

Glass
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 only observes her, but never tries to help her

That Hope never carries a shield
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?
Flies away

Turns away from the speaker

Comforts the speaker

Sings
17 When does Hope stop singing?
When the speaker tries to talk to her

When bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker observes her

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

Loving

Dependable

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

Mary and Lydia

Elinor and Marianne

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

Cold

Angry

Puzzling
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?
The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope
22 What is the poem's climax?
The speaker vanishes

The speaker confronts hope

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

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

Twenty

Two

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

Bitter conflict

Verbal agreement

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

Love

Watching

Debate

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