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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. How is Granny described as looking at the end of "The Little Match Girl"?
(a) Big and compassionate.
(b) Large and beautiful.
(c) Enormous and wild.
(d) Large and celestial.

2. The story ends saying that the passers-by do not know about what?
(a) The pain the girl endured.
(b) The plight of a poor child.
(c) The abusive nature of her father.
(d) The glory the girl had seen.

3. What do the people say who see the little girl at the end of the story?
(a) What a waste.
(b) She was trying to keep warm.
(c) Poor little creature.
(d) She should have gone home.

4. What does the little girl do immediately after her first match burns out?
(a) She shivers uncontrollably.
(b) She heads home.
(c) She lights another one.
(d) She falls asleep.

5. In addition to being "frozen and hungry" (59), how is the girl described as feeling?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Inconsolable.
(d) Discouraged.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What holiday dinner scene does the girl see after lighting the second candle?

3. Despite the cold, where does the girl refuse to go?

4. How was the little girl able to see the Christmas tree inside someone's house the year before?

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

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