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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the roof of the girl's house described in "The Little Match Girl"?
(a) Flat.
(b) Solid.
(c) Bare.
(d) Pitched.

2. How are the final matches the girl lights described as burning?
(a) Quickly.
(b) Beautifully.
(c) With compassion.
(d) With brilliance.

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

4. What does the little girl do after her third match goes out?
(a) She begs for help.
(b) She goes home.
(c) She sobs.
(d) She strikes another match against the wall.

5. What part of her body does the girl try to warm first after she lights the first match?
(a) Her fingers.
(b) Her face.
(c) Her toes.
(d) Her ankles.

6. What food does the little girl smell throughout the street?
(a) Roast Goose.
(b) Roast Turkey.
(c) Beef stew.
(d) Ham.

7. 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 tells her Granny she loves her.
(c) She strikes all the matches at once.
(d) She gathers her things to go home.

8. In what state is the girl found at the end of the story?
(a) Sad and unable to speak.
(b) Weak and hungry.
(c) Frozen to death.
(d) Nearly dead but still breathing.

9. Despite the cold, where does the girl refuse to go?
(a) Her friend's house.
(b) Her Granny's.
(c) Church.
(d) Home.

10. Who will beat the girl if she goes home?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

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

12. How was the little girl able to see the Christmas tree inside someone's house the year before?
(a) Through their windows.
(b) The door was open.
(c) She was invited inside.
(d) They had a glass door.

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

14. How many matches has the little girl sold at the start of "The Little Match Girl"?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) 23.
(d) 11.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the person who took the little girl's slipper want it for?

3. What coin does the narrator say the girl had not received for her matches?

4. On what day is it said the little girl died?

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

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