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

Jane Austen

Her father

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

Hope

Eternity

Despair

Fate
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?

House of the Seven Gables

Pride and Prejudice

Wuthering Heights

Clarissa
4 When was "Hope" published?

1896

1841

1865

1846
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

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Wuthering Heights
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Tercets

Sestets

Quatrains

Couplets
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABCB

ABBA

ABBC

ABAB
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Pastoral poetry

War epic

Love sonnet

Victorian poetry
9 Which of the following publications reviewed Brontë's poetry favorably?

The Bradford Daily

The Bostonian

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 timid friend

As a two-faced liar

As a fairweather companion

As an unreliable narrator
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,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

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

Eyes

Relics

Mirrors

Glass
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 never doing a good job of keeping watch

That Hope is a double agent

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

Turns away from the speaker

Sings

Flies away

Comforts the speaker
17 When does Hope stop singing?

When the speaker tries to sing with her

When bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker tries to talk to her

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

Loving

Unreliable

Dependable

Mysterious
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Beth and Meg

Mary and Lydia

Elinor and Marianne

Anne and Charlotte
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 unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's loss of joy

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

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

Hope comforts the speaker

The speaker vanishes

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

Two

Ten

Five

Twenty
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?

Music

Debate

Watching

Love

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