Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quizzes

Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quiz

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

Her father

Jane Austen

Her sister Charlotte

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

Despair

Eternity

Fate

Hope
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?

Wuthering Heights

House of the Seven Gables

Pride and Prejudice

Clarissa
4 When was "Hope" published?

1846

1896

1865

1841
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Wuthering Heights

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Quatrains

Sestets

Tercets

Couplets
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBA

ABBC

ABCB

ABAB
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Love sonnet

War epic

Victorian poetry

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

The Bostonian

The London Times

The Bradford Daily

The Athenaeum
10 What does the speaker personify in the poem?

Despair

Religious fervor

Joy

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

As an unreliable narrator

As a two-faced liar

As a fairweather companion

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

"And she turned her face away!"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

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

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"Hope was but a timid friend;"
14 Which of these images is a symbol in the poem?

Mirrors

Glass

Eyes

Relics
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 is a double agent

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?

Sings

Comforts the speaker

Flies away

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

When the speaker tries to sing with her

When bad luck befalls the speaker

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

Dependable

Unreliable
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Beth and Meg

Anne and Charlotte

Elinor and Marianne

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

Somber

Cold

Puzzling

Angry
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?

The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope
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?

Two

Ten

Five

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

Verbal agreement

War

Harvest

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

Debate

Love

Music

Watching

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