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?
Despair

Hope

Fate

Eternity
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?
Wuthering Heights

Clarissa

Pride and Prejudice

House of the Seven Gables
4 When was "Hope" published?
1865

1896

1841

1846
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Wuthering Heights

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters
6 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Quatrains

Sestets

Tercets

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

ABAB

ABBA

ABBC
8 What is the genre of the poem?
War epic

Pastoral poetry

Love sonnet

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

The Bradford Daily

The Athenaeum

The London Times
10 What does the speaker personify in the poem?
Religious fervor

Despair

Hope

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

As a timid friend

As a fairweather companion

As an unreliable narrator
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"And she turned her face away!"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Hope was but a timid friend;"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"
14 Which of these images is a symbol in the poem?
Mirrors

Eyes

Relics

Glass
15 What does the speaker mean when she says that Hope is a "false guard"?
That Hope never carries a shield

That Hope only observes her, but never tries to help her

That Hope is a double agent

That Hope is never doing a good job of keeping watch
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?
Comforts the speaker

Sings

Flies away

Turns away from the speaker
17 When does Hope stop singing?
When the speaker tries to talk to her

When the speaker tries to sing with her

When bad luck befalls the speaker

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

Dependable

Mysterious

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

Beth and Meg

Anne and Charlotte

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

Somber

Angry

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

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

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

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

The speaker confronts hope

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

Five

Two

Twenty
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

Love

Music

Debate

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