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