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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 little girl do before her fourth match burns out?
(a) She gathers her things to go home.
(b) She strikes all the matches at once.
(c) She desperately tries to warm her whole body with it.
(d) She tells her Granny she loves her.

2. What food does the little girl smell throughout the street?
(a) Roast Turkey.
(b) Roast Goose.
(c) Ham.
(d) Beef stew.

3. How many candles does the story say burned on the green branches of the Christmas tree the little girl sees after lighting her third candle?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 100.
(d) 1,000.

4. 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) Thank you, God.
(c) That was beautiful.
(d) Someone is dying.

5. How many matches has the little girl sold at the start of "The Little Match Girl"?
(a) 3.
(b) 0.
(c) 11.
(d) 23.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the first match described after it burns out?

2. What is it said the girl and her Granny fly up in?

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

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

5. Who is the author of "The Little Match Girl"?

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