Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quizzes

Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quiz

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

Her father

Jane Austen

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

Hope

Eternity

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

House of the Seven Gables

Wuthering Heights

Clarissa
4 When was "Hope" published?
1846

1841

1865

1896
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?
The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Wuthering Heights
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Quatrains

Couplets

Tercets

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

ABBC

ABCB

ABAB
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Victorian poetry

War epic

Love sonnet

Pastoral 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?
Despair

Joy

Religious fervor

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

As a two-faced liar

As a timid friend

As an unreliable narrator
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"And she turned her face away!"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"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 never carries a shield

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
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?
Turns away from the speaker

Comforts the speaker

Flies away

Sings
17 When does Hope stop singing?
When the speaker observes her

When the speaker tries to talk to her

When bad luck befalls the speaker

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

Unreliable

Mysterious

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

Elinor and Marianne

Anne and Charlotte

Mary and Lydia
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 difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's struggle with loss
22 What is the poem's climax?
Hope comforts the speaker

The speaker confronts hope

The speaker vanishes

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

Two

Ten

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

War

Harvest

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

Watching

Debate

Love

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