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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How are the final matches the girl lights described as burning?
(a) Beautifully.
(b) With compassion.
(c) With brilliance.
(d) Quickly.

4. What falls on the little girl's "long fair hair" while she is outside?
(a) Raindrops.
(b) Pine needles.
(c) Snowflakes.
(d) Falling leaves.

5. Despite the cold, where does the girl refuse to go?
(a) Her Granny's.
(b) Home.
(c) Church.
(d) Her friend's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it said the girl and her Granny fly up in?

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

3. What part of her body does the girl try to warm first after she lights the first match?

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

5. What type of metal knobs and facings does the girl see in her first vision after the first match is lit?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the little girl doing just as her second match burns out?

2. What does the girl say to her Granny after lighting her third match?

3. Why did the girl dare not go home despite the cold?

4. What does the girl say at the sight of a fallen start as her second candle burns out and why?

5. What day of the year does "The Little Match Girl" begin?

6. Describe the vision the little girl has upon lighting her first match.

7. What happens just as the little girl stretches her feet to warm them before the warmth of the iron stove?

8. Describe what happens to the Christmas candles in the vision the little girl has after lighting her second match.

9. Why does the girl light her remaining matches toward the end of "The Little Match Girl"?

10. What vision does the girl see upon lighting her third match?

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