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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 type of metal knobs and facings does the girl see in her first vision after the first match is lit?
(a) Steel.
(b) Brass.
(c) Tin.
(d) Copper.

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

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

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

5. What is it said the girl and her Granny fly up in?
(a) Calm and ease.
(b) Peace and serenity.
(c) Radiance and happiness.
(d) God's heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the little girl's feet described at the start of "The Little Match Girl"?

2. What did her family stuff into the holes of the roof of their house?

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

4. What falls on the little girl's "long fair hair" while she is outside?

5. What does Granny do to the little girl after the girl lights all the matches?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say when describing the way the little girl's hair falls around her neck?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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