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

Despair

Eternity

Hope
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?
Pride and Prejudice

Wuthering Heights

Clarissa

House of the Seven Gables
4 When was "Hope" published?
1846

1865

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?
Tercets

Couplets

Quatrains

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

ABBC

ABBA

ABAB
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Pastoral poetry

Victorian poetry

War epic

Love sonnet
9 Which of the following publications reviewed Brontë's poetry favorably?
The London Times

The Bostonian

The Athenaeum

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

Religious fervor

Hope

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

As a two-faced liar

As a timid friend

As an unreliable narrator
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"And she turned her face away!"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"Hope was but a timid friend;"

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

Mirrors

Relics

Eyes
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?
Flies away

Comforts the speaker

Sings

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?
Loving

Dependable

Unreliable

Mysterious
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Beth and Meg

Anne and Charlotte

Mary and Lydia

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

Angry

Cold

Somber
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?
The speaker's loss of joy

The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

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

Hope comforts the speaker

Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

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

Ten

Twenty

Five
24 What does the word "strife" mean in the poem?
Harvest

War

Bitter conflict

Verbal agreement
25 Which of the following is a motif in the poem?
Love

Music

Watching

Debate

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