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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 character walks the streets alone at the start of "The Little Match Girl"?
(a) A poor little boy.
(b) An old grandmother.
(c) A poor little girl.
(d) A young father.

2. What does the little girl do just before the third match goes out?
(a) She stretches her hands toward the candle-lit Christmas tree.
(b) She lights another match with the dying third match.
(c) She falls asleep.
(d) She passes away.

3. Who told the little girl that when a star falls a "soul goes up to God" (61)?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

4. What do the final set of matches the girl lights do to the outside world?
(a) Makes it glow brighter than daylight.
(b) Makes it look hopeful.
(c) Reveals its evil.
(d) Heats it up.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the little girl huddle between when trying to keep warm?

2. Who takes the one remaining slipper from the little girl after the other was lost?

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

4. What falls on the little girl's "long fair hair" while she is outside?

5. What is no longer there when the girl flies off with her Granny?

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