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

2. How are the little girl's feet described at the start of "The Little Match Girl"?
(a) Red and blue with cold.
(b) Toasty warm.
(c) Covered in frostbite.
(d) Purple and blistered.

3. Why will the girl get a beating if she goes home?
(a) She stole matches.
(b) She ran away.
(c) She lit a match.
(d) She has not sold any matches.

4. What two words are used to describe what the second match did after the little girl lit it?
(a) Fired and soared.
(b) Lit and warmed.
(c) Heated and hugged.
(d) Burned and blazed.

5. On what day is it said the little girl died?
(a) Christmas Day.
(b) The last day of the old year.
(c) The first day of the new year.
(d) The night before Christmas.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the tablecloth the girl sees after lighting the second match?

2. What does the little girl do after her third match goes out?

3. What is the girl sitting under after lighting her third match?

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

5. What did the main character have on her feet when she first left her house?

(see the answer key)

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