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

Her brother Bramwell

Her sister Charlotte

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

Hope

Fate

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

House of the Seven Gables

Pride and Prejudice

Clarissa
4 When was "Hope" published?
1896

1846

1865

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?
ABBA

ABBC

ABAB

ABCB
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Victorian poetry

Love sonnet

War epic

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

The Athenaeum

The Bostonian

The London Times
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 timid friend

As a fairweather companion

As an unreliable narrator

As a two-faced liar
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"And she turned her face away!"

"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

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

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

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

Relics

Mirrors

Eyes
15 What does the speaker mean when she says that Hope is a "false guard"?
That Hope is a double agent

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

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

Turns away from the speaker

Comforts the speaker

Flies away
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

Mary and Lydia

Elinor and Marianne

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

Cold

Somber

Angry
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?
The speaker vanishes

Hope comforts the speaker

The speaker confronts hope

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

Twenty

Five

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

Bitter conflict

Harvest

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

Love

Music

Debate

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