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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On what day of the year does "The Little Match Girl" begin?
(a) Easter.
(b) Christmas Eve.
(c) New Year's Eve.
(d) Independence Day.

3. What is no longer there when the girl flies off with her Granny?
(a) Roast goose, Christmas trees, and candles.
(b) Cold, hunger, and fear.
(c) Poverty, hunger, and abuse.
(d) Anger, misery, and poverty.

4. How many matches has the little girl sold at the start of "The Little Match Girl"?
(a) 3.
(b) 0.
(c) 23.
(d) 11.

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

6. What adverb is used to describe how the first candle burned?
(a) Lovingly.
(b) Calmly.
(c) Extravagantly.
(d) Deliciously.

7. Who will beat the girl if she goes home?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Her grandmother.

8. Who is the author of "The Little Match Girl"?
(a) Hans Christian Andersen.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) Lewis Carroll.
(d) Jacob Grimm.

9. What does the little girl huddle between when trying to keep warm?
(a) Two restaurants.
(b) Two cafes.
(c) Two houses.
(d) Two bakeries.

10. What does the little girl do just before the third match goes out?
(a) She falls asleep.
(b) She passes away.
(c) She lights another match with the dying third match.
(d) She stretches her hands toward the candle-lit Christmas tree.

11. What was unique about the little girl's grandmother compared to other people she knew?
(a) Her grandmother did not like Christmas.
(b) Her grandmother was the only person who had ever been kind to her.
(c) Her grandmother was the only person she knew who cooked roast goose.
(d) Her grandmother was wealthy.

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

13. What does the girl see after she lights the second candle?
(a) A room with a table.
(b) God.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her parents at home.

14. How is the girl described as feeling after trying to warm herself by tucking her legs beneath her?
(a) Warmer.
(b) Sleepy.
(c) Even colder.
(d) Depressed.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How are the little girl's hands described just before she considers lighting a match?

4. Where is the little girl found sitting in the morning at the end of "The Little Match Girl"?

5. Who is it said the little girl and her Granny are with at the end of the story?

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