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?
Fate

Despair

Hope

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

Clarissa

House of the Seven Gables

Pride and Prejudice
4 When was "Hope" published?
1865

1896

1846

1841
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?
Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

Wuthering Heights

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Quatrains

Couplets

Tercets

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

ABCB

ABBA

ABBC
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Love sonnet

Pastoral poetry

Victorian poetry

War epic
9 Which of the following publications reviewed Brontë's poetry favorably?
The Bradford Daily

The Athenaeum

The London Times

The Bostonian
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 an unreliable narrator

As a fairweather companion

As a two-faced liar

As a timid friend
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"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,"

"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

Relics

Eyes

Glass
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?
Flies away

Comforts the speaker

Turns away from the speaker

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

When the speaker tries to sing with her

When bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker observes her
18 How does the speaker characterize her relationship with Hope?
Loving

Mysterious

Dependable

Unreliable
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Beth and Meg

Elinor and Marianne

Mary and Lydia

Anne and Charlotte
20 What is the best description of the tone of poem?
Somber

Puzzling

Cold

Angry
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?
The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion
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

Five

Twenty

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

Bitter conflict

War

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

Love

Music

Watching

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