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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the final set of matches the girl lights do to the outside world?
(a) Reveals its evil.
(b) Makes it look hopeful.
(c) Makes it glow brighter than daylight.
(d) Heats it up.

2. Who is it said the little girl and her Granny are with at the end of the story?
(a) Her father.
(b) God.
(c) Their whole family.
(d) The wealthy grocer.

3. What "miraculous" thing happens after the girls lights the second match?
(a) The beef waves to her from the table.
(b) The goose stands up and sings.
(c) The goose jumps off the table and waddles toward her.
(d) The turkey dances on the table.

4. What is it said the girl and her Granny fly up in?
(a) Calm and ease.
(b) Peace and serenity.
(c) God's heaven.
(d) Radiance and happiness.

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

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

7. What did the main character have on her feet when she first left her house?
(a) Her father's slippers.
(b) Her sister's shoes.
(c) Her mother's slippers.
(d) Her brother's shoes.

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

9. Who told the little girl that when a star falls a "soul goes up to God" (61)?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her sister.

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

11. What happens after the second match burns out?
(a) The dinner scene disappears.
(b) The girl cries for help.
(c) The girl falls asleep.
(d) Someone buys a match from the little girl.

12. What does Granny do to the little girl after the girl lights all the matches?
(a) Lifts her in her arms.
(b) Admonishes her for being wasteful.
(c) Hugs her and sobs.
(d) Carries her back to her father.

13. Where is the little girl found sitting in the morning at the end of "The Little Match Girl"?
(a) Near a church.
(b) In the corner by the house.
(c) Outside her father's home.
(d) Outside the grocer's house.

14. What disappears as the first candle burns out?
(a) The girl's purse.
(b) The match bundle.
(c) The Christmas Tree.
(d) The stove.

15. What holiday dinner scene does the girl see after lighting the second candle?
(a) Easter.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) New Year's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state is the girl found at the end of the story?

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 adjectives are used to describe the first match the little girl lit?

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

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