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