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 sister Charlotte

Her father

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

Fate

Hope

Eternity
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?
House of the Seven Gables

Wuthering Heights

Pride and Prejudice

Clarissa
4 When was "Hope" published?
1846

1841

1896

1865
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?
Tercets

Sestets

Couplets

Quatrains
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBC

ABBA

ABCB

ABAB
8 What is the genre of the poem?
War epic

Pastoral poetry

Victorian poetry

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

The London Times

The Bostonian

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

Despair

Joy

Religious fervor
11 How does the speaker describe hope in the poem?
As a timid friend

As a two-faced liar

As an unreliable narrator

As a fairweather companion
12 Which of the following lines contains hyperbole?
"Watching how my fate would tend,"

"Like a false guard, false watch keeping,"

"And she turned her face away!"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"
13 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Hope was but a timid friend;"

"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"
14 Which of these images is a symbol in the poem?
Relics

Glass

Eyes

Mirrors
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 is never doing a good job of keeping watch

That Hope never carries a shield
16 What does Hope do at the end of the poem?
Turns away from the speaker

Flies away

Comforts the speaker

Sings
17 When does Hope stop singing?
When the speaker tries to sing with her

When the speaker tries to talk to 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

Somber

Cold

Angry
21 What is the central conflict of the poem?
The speaker's struggle with loss

The speaker's unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's difficulties with religious devotion

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?
Two

Twenty

Five

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

Verbal agreement

Bitter conflict

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

Debate

Love

Watching

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