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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. After the third match goes out, what do the Christmas candles turn into?
(a) Colorful pictures.
(b) Brilliant stars.
(c) Dazzling dancers.
(d) Fireworks.

2. What does the girl do after her second match goes out?
(a) She sells a match to someone.
(b) She throws her matches away.
(c) She asks someone to help her.
(d) She lights a third one.

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

4. How are the final matches the girl lights described as burning?
(a) Quickly.
(b) With compassion.
(c) With brilliance.
(d) Beautifully.

5. What does the second candle to do the part of the wall it lit up?
(a) Made it hot like a stove.
(b) Turned it into a movie screen.
(c) Made it transparent as gauze.
(d) Turned it black with soot.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the roof of the girl's house described in "The Little Match Girl"?

2. What is the little girl doing just before the first candle burns out?

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

4. Despite trying to fill the holes in the roof, what still came in the house?

5. How is Granny described as looking at the end of "The Little Match Girl"?

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