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?

Fate

Eternity

Despair

Hope
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?

Pride and Prejudice

Clarissa

House of the Seven Gables

Wuthering Heights
4 When was "Hope" published?

1865

1896

1846

1841
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?

Wuthering Heights

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

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?

ABBA

ABAB

ABBC

ABCB
8 What is the genre of the poem?

War epic

Victorian poetry

Love sonnet

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

The London Times

The Bradford Daily

The Bostonian

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

Religious fervor

Hope

Despair

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

As a timid friend

As a fairweather companion

As an unreliable narrator

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

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"And she turned her face away!"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"Hope was but a timid friend;"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

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

Eyes

Mirrors

Glass

Relics
15 What does the speaker mean when she says that Hope is a "false guard"?

That Hope is a double agent

That Hope never carries a shield

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

That Hope is never doing a good job of keeping watch
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 the speaker tries to talk to her

When bad luck befalls the speaker

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

Unreliable

Mysterious

Loving

Dependable
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Mary and Lydia

Elinor and Marianne

Anne and Charlotte

Beth and Meg
20 What is the best description of the tone of poem?

Somber

Angry

Puzzling

Cold
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope
22 What is the poem's climax?

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

Hope comforts the speaker

The speaker vanishes

The speaker confronts hope
23 How many stanzas does the poem have?

Five

Ten

Two

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

Verbal agreement

Harvest

War

Bitter conflict
25 Which of the following is a motif in the poem?

Debate

Love

Watching

Music

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