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

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

3. What coin does the narrator say the girl had not received for her matches?
(a) A dime.
(b) A nickel.
(c) A penny.
(d) A half-cent.

4. Why will the girl get a beating if she goes home?
(a) She has not sold any matches.
(b) She lit a match.
(c) She ran away.
(d) She stole matches.

5. What does the person who took the little girl's slipper want it for?
(a) A purse.
(b) A baby cradle.
(c) To sell for money.
(d) A drinking cup.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the third match goes out, what do the Christmas candles turn into?

2. What did the main character have on her feet when she first left her house?

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

4. What was unique about the little girl's grandmother compared to other people she knew?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the little girl lose her mother's slippers?

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

4. Where is the little girl found on New Year's morning and how is she described?

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

6. What image does the girl see before her after lighting the first match?

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

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

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

10. How is the little girl's home described?

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