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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 "miraculous" thing happens after the girls lights the second match?
(a) The turkey dances on the table.
(b) The beef waves to her from the table.
(c) The goose jumps off the table and waddles toward her.
(d) The goose stands up and sings.

2. What does the second candle to do the part of the wall it lit up?
(a) Made it hot like a stove.
(b) Turned it black with soot.
(c) Turned it into a movie screen.
(d) Made it transparent as gauze.

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

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

5. What did her family stuff into the holes of the roof of their house?
(a) Feathers.
(b) Mud.
(c) Paper.
(d) Straw and rags.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many matches has the little girl sold at the start of "The Little Match Girl"?

2. What does the girl do after her second match goes out?

3. What does the little girl huddle between when trying to keep warm?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is the little girl described at the beginning of "The Little Match Girl"?

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

5. How is the night described at the start of "The Little Match Girl"?

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

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

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

9. What is the little girl trying to do as she walks the cold streets at night?

10. Where and how does the little girl sit at the start of the story in an attempt to keep warm?

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