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 father

Her sister Charlotte

Jane Austen
2 What is the poem's central theme?
Eternity

Despair

Fate

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

House of the Seven Gables

Wuthering Heights

Clarissa
4 When was "Hope" published?
1841

1896

1865

1846
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

Wuthering Heights

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?
ABCB

ABBA

ABAB

ABBC
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 London Times

The Bostonian

The Athenaeum

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

Joy

Religious fervor

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

As a timid friend

As an unreliable narrator

As a two-faced liar
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"And she turned her face away!"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"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?
Glass

Relics

Eyes

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

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

That Hope is never doing a good job of keeping watch

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

Sings

Flies away

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

When the speaker tries to talk to her

When the speaker tries to sing with her

When bad luck befalls the speaker
18 How does the speaker characterize her relationship with Hope?
Dependable

Mysterious

Unreliable

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

Mary and Lydia

Anne and Charlotte

Beth and Meg
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 loss of joy

The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion
22 What is the poem's climax?
Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

The speaker vanishes

The speaker confronts hope

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

Twenty

Two

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

Verbal agreement

War

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

Love

Debate

Music

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