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

Jane Austen

Her brother Bramwell

Her sister Charlotte
2 What is the poem's central theme?
Eternity

Hope

Despair

Fate
3 What novel is Brontë known for writing?
Clarissa

Pride and Prejudice

House of the Seven Gables

Wuthering Heights
4 When was "Hope" published?
1846

1841

1896

1865
5 What was the title of the collection that this poem was published in?
Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë

Wuthering Heights

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

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

Quatrains

Sestets

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

ABBC

ABBA

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

War epic

Victorian poetry

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

The London Times

The Bradford Daily

The Bostonian
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 two-faced liar

As a timid friend

As an unreliable narrator

As a fairweather companion
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?
"When my last joys strewed the ground,"

"Balm to all my frenzied pain,"

"Even Sorrow saw, repenting,"

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

Eyes

Glass

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?
Sings

Flies away

Comforts the speaker

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 the speaker observes her

When bad luck befalls the speaker
18 How does the speaker characterize her relationship with Hope?
Loving

Unreliable

Mysterious

Dependable
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Mary and Lydia

Anne and Charlotte

Elinor and Marianne

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

Puzzling

Angry

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 unbalanced relationship with Hope

The speaker's loss of joy
22 What is the poem's climax?
Hope abandons the speaker at her lowest moment

Hope comforts the speaker

The speaker confronts hope

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

Ten

Twenty

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

Harvest

Verbal agreement

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

Watching

Debate

Love

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