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

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

3. What surface does the little girl use to light the first match?
(a) A nearby stone.
(b) The wall.
(c) The bottom of her shoe.
(d) The ground.

4. Despite trying to fill the holes in the roof, what still came in the house?
(a) Rain.
(b) Wind.
(c) Snow.
(d) Dust.

5. What simile is used to describe the first match the little girl lit?
(a) The sun.
(b) A candle.
(c) A wood stove.
(d) A fireplace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the little girl doing just before the first candle burns out?

2. How is the grandmother described when the little girl sees her after lighting another match?

3. The story ends saying that the passers-by do not know about what?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does the girl's Granny do with her after she lights the remaining matches?

7. How do passers-by react when they see the little girl?

8. What does the second match the girl lights turn the wall before her into?

9. After lighting the second match, whose Christmas tree is compared to the one she sees?

10. What was the grandmother like to the little girl when she was alive?

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