Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • 1. In which city was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born?
A) Boston, Massachusetts
B) New York City, New York
C) Portland, Maine
D) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 2. Which of the following is a famous poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
A) Ode to a Nightingale
B) Paradise Lost
C) The Waste Land
D) The Song of Hiawatha
  • 3. In what year did Henry Wadsworth Longfellow die?
A) 1900
B) 1955
C) 1837
D) 1882
  • 4. What is the title of Longfellow's famous poem about a blacksmith?
A) The Ironworker
B) The Village Blacksmith
C) The Blacksmith's Forge
D) Forging Dreams
  • 5. What is the famous line from 'The Song of Hiawatha'?
A) Fair is the sunshine
B) Once upon a midnight dreary
C) It was many, many years ago
D) By the shores of Gitche Gumee
  • 6. What was the nationality of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's ancestry?
A) English
B) French
C) German
D) American
  • 7. Which university did Henry Wadsworth Longfellow teach at for most of his career?
A) Oxford University
B) Stanford University
C) Harvard University
D) Yale University
  • 8. Which of Longfellow's poems tells the story of a young Puritan woman named Priscilla and the two men who love her?
A) The Wreck of the Hesperus
B) Evangeline
C) The Courtship of Miles Standish
D) The Song of Hiawatha
  • 9. What is Longfellow's most famous collection of poems?
A) Thirteen Books of the Elements
B) Songs of the Distant Shore
C) Tales of a Wayside Inn
D) Echoes of the Past
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