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

Jane Austen

Her father

Her sister Charlotte
2 What is the poem's central theme?
Eternity

Despair

Fate

Hope
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?
Clarissa

Pride and Prejudice

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?
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?
Tercets

Couplets

Quatrains

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

ABAB

ABCB

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

Love sonnet

Pastoral poetry

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

The Bradford Daily

The London Times

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

Joy

Hope

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

As an unreliable narrator

As a timid friend

As a two-faced liar
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?
"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?
Glass

Relics

Eyes

Mirrors
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 is a double agent

That Hope never carries a shield
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?
Flies away

Turns away from the speaker

Comforts the speaker

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

When the speaker observes her

When the speaker tries to talk to her

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

Mysterious

Unreliable

Dependable
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

Puzzling

Somber
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 loss of joy

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope
22 What is the poem's climax?
The speaker vanishes

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

Hope comforts the speaker

The speaker confronts hope
23 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Ten

Twenty

Five

Two
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?
Watching

Debate

Music

Love

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