Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quizzes

Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quiz

1 Who first read Brontë's poems and encouraged her to publish them?
Jane Austen

Her brother Bramwell

Her sister Charlotte

Her father
2 What is the poem's central theme?
Despair

Hope

Eternity

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

Clarissa

House of the Seven Gables

Wuthering Heights
4 When was "Hope" published?
1841

1846

1865

1896
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?
Wuthering Heights

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Quatrains

Tercets

Sestets

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

ABCB

ABAB

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 Bostonian

The London Times

The Bradford Daily

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

Religious fervor

Hope

Despair
11 How does the speaker describe hope in the poem?
As a two-faced liar

As an unreliable narrator

As a fairweather companion

As a timid friend
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"And she turned her face away!"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"Hope was but a timid friend;"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"
14 Which of these images is a symbol in the poem?
Mirrors

Glass

Relics

Eyes
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?
Comforts the speaker

Turns away from the speaker

Flies away

Sings
17 When does Hope stop singing?
When bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker tries to talk to her

When the speaker tries to sing with her

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

Loving

Mysterious

Dependable
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Elinor and Marianne

Mary and Lydia

Beth and Meg

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

Angry

Cold

Somber
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?
The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion
22 What is the poem's climax?
The speaker confronts hope

The speaker vanishes

Hope comforts the speaker

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

Twenty

Ten

Two
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?
Watching

Love

Music

Debate

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