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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) Poor little creature.
(b) She was trying to keep warm.
(c) She should have gone home.
(d) What a waste.

2. What does the girl imagine she is in front of after she lights the first match?
(a) An iron stove.
(b) A fireplace.
(c) A Christmas tree.
(d) The lord.

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

4. What does the girl say is happening after a star falls and makes "a long fiery trail across the sky" (61)?
(a) Thank you, God.
(b) That was beautiful.
(c) It's time to go home.
(d) Someone is dying.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What adverb is used to describe how the first candle burned?

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

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

4. What is the little girl sure will happen once her fourth match burns out?

5. How is Granny described as looking at the end of "The Little Match Girl"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the girl see after the first match burns out?

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

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

5. What does the little girl see after lighting her second match?

6. What does the early description of the little girl tell you about her and how?

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

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

9. What simile is use to describe the first match the candle lit?

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

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