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?

Hope

Eternity

Despair

Fate
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?

Pride and Prejudice

House of the Seven Gables

Clarissa

Wuthering Heights
4 When was "Hope" published?

1865

1841

1896

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

The Collected Work of the Brontë Sisters

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Wuthering Heights

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

Couplets

Tercets

Quatrains

Sestets
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABAB

ABBC

ABCB

ABBA
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Love sonnet

Victorian poetry

War epic

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

The London Times

The Athenaeum

The Bradford Daily

The Bostonian
10 What does the speaker personify in the poem?

Despair

Religious fervor

Joy

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

As a fairweather companion

As a timid friend

As an unreliable narrator

As a two-faced liar
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"And she turned her face away!"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

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

Relics

Mirrors

Eyes

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 a double agent

That Hope never carries a shield

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

Sings

Comforts the speaker

Turns away from the speaker

Flies away
17 When does Hope stop singing?

When the speaker tries to sing with her

When the speaker observes 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

Unreliable

Loving
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Mary and Lydia

Beth and Meg

Elinor and Marianne

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 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?

The speaker confronts hope

The speaker vanishes

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

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

Five

Ten

Two

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

War

Bitter conflict

Verbal agreement

Harvest
25 Which of the following is a motif in the poem?

Debate

Love

Music

Watching

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