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