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

Her father

Her sister Charlotte

Jane Austen
2 What is the poem's central theme?
Fate

Eternity

Hope

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

Pride and Prejudice

House of the Seven Gables

Clarissa
4 When was "Hope" published?
1865

1846

1896

1841
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

Wuthering Heights

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

Quatrains

Couplets

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

ABAB

ABBC

ABBA
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 London Times

The Athenaeum

The Bradford Daily

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

Hope

Joy

Despair
11 How does the speaker describe hope in the poem?
As a fairweather companion

As an unreliable narrator

As a two-faced liar

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

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Hope was but a timid friend;"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

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

Mirrors

Eyes

Relics
15 What does the speaker mean when she says that Hope is a "false guard"?
That Hope is never doing a good job of keeping watch

That Hope is a double agent

That Hope never carries a shield

That Hope only observes her, but never tries to help her
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 the speaker tries to talk to her

When bad luck befalls the speaker

When the speaker tries to sing with her

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

Loving

Unreliable

Mysterious
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Anne and Charlotte

Beth and Meg

Mary and Lydia

Elinor and Marianne
20 What is the best description of the tone of poem?
Cold

Puzzling

Somber

Angry
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?
The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's loss of joy

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

The speaker confronts hope

Hope comforts the speaker

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

Five

Ten

Two
24 What does the word "strife" mean in the poem?
Bitter conflict

Verbal agreement

Harvest

War
25 Which of the following is a motif in the poem?
Music

Debate

Love

Watching

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