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