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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Little Match Girl" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the girl say is happening after a star falls and makes "a long fiery trail across the sky" (61)?
(a) It's time to go home.
(b) Someone is dying.
(c) Thank you, God.
(d) That was beautiful.

2. How are the little girl's hands described just before she considers lighting a match?
(a) Dead with cold.
(b) Like icicles.
(c) Frozen stiff.
(d) Red with cold.

3. What is the little girl sure will happen once her fourth match burns out?
(a) She will freeze.
(b) Her father will come for her.
(c) Her Granny will disappear.
(d) Someone will finally buy a match.

4. Where is the little girl found sitting in the morning at the end of "The Little Match Girl"?
(a) Outside her father's home.
(b) In the corner by the house.
(c) Outside the grocer's house.
(d) Near a church.

5. What is it said the girl and her Granny fly up in?
(a) Radiance and happiness.
(b) Peace and serenity.
(c) God's heaven.
(d) Calm and ease.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the girl described as feeling after trying to warm herself by tucking her legs beneath her?

2. What two words are used to describe what the second match did after the little girl lit it?

3. What does the little girl do before her fourth match burns out?

4. Who is it said the little girl and her Granny are with at the end of the story?

5. Who will beat the girl if she goes home?

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