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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 the girl's clothing described at the start of "The Little Match Girl"?
(a) She is wearing a holiday dress.
(b) She is well dressed and warm.
(c) She is dressed like a boy.
(d) She is bareheaded and barefoot.

2. How is the roof of the girl's house described in "The Little Match Girl"?
(a) Bare.
(b) Solid.
(c) Flat.
(d) Pitched.

3. How does the narrator describe the tablecloth the girl sees after lighting the second match?
(a) Delicate and blue.
(b) Blazing and red.
(c) Soft and cream-colored.
(d) Shining and white.

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

5. What is the little girl sure will happen once her fourth match burns out?
(a) She will freeze.
(b) Her father will come for her.
(c) Someone will finally buy a match.
(d) Her Granny will disappear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adverb is used to describe how the first candle burned?

2. What did her family stuff into the holes of the roof of their house?

3. In addition to being "frozen and hungry" (59), how is the girl described as feeling?

4. What two words are used to describe what the second match did after the little girl lit it?

5. What do the people say who see the little girl at the end of the story?

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