Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quizzes

Hope (Emily Brontë poem) Quiz

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

Her father

Jane Austen

Her sister Charlotte

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

Despair

Fate

Hope

Eternity
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?

House of the Seven Gables

Wuthering Heights

Clarissa

Pride and Prejudice
4 When was "Hope" published?

1841

1865

1896

1846
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Wuthering Heights

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

Couplets

Sestets

Tercets

Quatrains
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBC

ABCB

ABAB

ABBA
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Victorian poetry

Pastoral poetry

Love sonnet

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

The Bostonian

The London Times

The Athenaeum

The Bradford Daily
10 What does the speaker personify in the poem?

Hope

Despair

Religious fervor

Joy
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?

"And she turned her face away!"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"
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?

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 is never doing a good job of keeping watch

That Hope is a double agent

That Hope only observes her, but never tries to help her
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 bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker tries to talk to her

When the speaker tries to sing with her
18 How does the speaker characterize her relationship with Hope?

Mysterious

Loving

Unreliable

Dependable
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Elinor and Marianne

Beth and Meg

Mary and Lydia

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

Cold

Somber

Puzzling

Angry
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's loss of joy

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

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

The speaker vanishes

The speaker confronts hope

Hope comforts the speaker
23 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Five

Two

Ten

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?

Love

Watching

Debate

Music

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