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