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

Her sister Charlotte

Jane Austen

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

Fate

Hope

Despair

Eternity
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?

House of the Seven Gables

Clarissa

Pride and Prejudice

Wuthering Heights
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?

Couplets

Sestets

Quatrains

Tercets
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABCB

ABAB

ABBC

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 Athenaeum

The Bradford Daily

The London Times

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

Hope

Religious fervor

Despair

Joy
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?

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"And she turned her face away!"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"Hope was but a timid friend;"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"
14 Which of these images is a symbol in the poem?

Eyes

Mirrors

Glass

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 only observes her, but never tries to help her

That Hope never carries a shield

That Hope is a double agent
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?

Turns away from the speaker

Flies away

Sings

Comforts the speaker
17 When does Hope stop singing?

When bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker observes her

When the speaker tries to sing with her

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

Unreliable

Mysterious

Dependable

Loving
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Anne and Charlotte

Elinor and Marianne

Mary and Lydia

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 difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's loss of joy
22 What is the poem's climax?

The speaker confronts hope

The speaker vanishes

Hope comforts the speaker

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

Twenty

Two

Five

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?

Debate

Watching

Love

Music

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