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

Eternity

Despair

Hope
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?

Wuthering Heights

Pride and Prejudice

House of the Seven Gables

Clarissa
4 When was "Hope" published?

1841

1896

1846

1865
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

Wuthering Heights
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Sestets

Quatrains

Tercets

Couplets
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABCB

ABAB

ABBC

ABBA
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Pastoral poetry

Love sonnet

War epic

Victorian poetry
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?

Joy

Religious fervor

Despair

Hope
11 How does the speaker describe hope in the poem?

As a fairweather companion

As a two-faced liar

As an unreliable narrator

As a timid friend
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"And she turned her face away!"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

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

Eyes

Relics

Glass

Mirrors
15 What does the speaker mean when she says that Hope is a "false guard"?

That Hope never carries a shield

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
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?

Sings

Flies away

Turns away from the speaker

Comforts the speaker
17 When does Hope stop singing?

When the speaker observes her

When the speaker tries to sing with 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?

Mysterious

Dependable

Loving

Unreliable
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Beth and Meg

Anne and Charlotte

Elinor and Marianne

Mary and Lydia
20 What is the best description of the tone of poem?

Angry

Cold

Puzzling

Somber
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's struggle with loss

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

The speaker confronts hope

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

Hope comforts the speaker

The speaker vanishes
23 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Two

Twenty

Five

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

Harvest

Bitter conflict

War

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

Love

Debate

Watching

Music

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