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

Her father

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

Fate

Despair

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

Clarissa

Wuthering Heights

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

1865

1841

1846
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

Sestets

Quatrains

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

ABBC

ABCB

ABBA
8 What is the genre of the poem?
War epic

Pastoral poetry

Victorian 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?
Joy

Religious fervor

Despair

Hope
11 How does the speaker describe hope in the poem?
As a two-faced liar

As a fairweather companion

As an unreliable narrator

As a timid friend
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"And she turned her face away!"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

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

Mirrors

Eyes

Relics
15 What does the speaker mean when she says that Hope is a "false guard"?
That Hope only observes her, but never tries to help her

That Hope is a double agent

That Hope never carries a shield

That Hope is never doing a good job of keeping watch
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?
Flies away

Sings

Turns away from the speaker

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

When the speaker tries to sing with her

When the speaker observes her

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

Loving

Unreliable

Mysterious
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Mary and Lydia

Anne and Charlotte

Beth and Meg

Elinor and Marianne
20 What is the best description of the tone of poem?
Angry

Puzzling

Somber

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

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's loss of joy

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

Hope comforts the speaker

The speaker vanishes

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

Ten

Twenty

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

Bitter conflict

Verbal agreement

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

Watching

Debate

Love

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