TREASURE TROVE STORIES COLLECTION - The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
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- Q1
1. Where did this story take place?
a) On a cold New Year's eve night
c) On a cold New Year's day
b) In a small town at night
d) During a warm summers day
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2. Why did the young girl sell matches?
d) To buy a roast goose for Christmas
c) To earn enough money to buy a Christmas tree
a) To save up money to buy new slippers
b) To earn money to help support her poor family
30s - Q3
3. What is the, "The Little Match Girl"?
d) Child abuse
c) Selling matchsticks
b) Ways to earn money as a child
a) Class differentiation, Empathy
30s - Q4
4. What did the visions represent to the little match girl each time she little a match?
c) Each match is a vision of her hopes and dreams
a) Each match represented the cold weather
d) Each match represented her family members
b) The matches represented the fear she had going home without any money for her family
30s - Q5
5. What does the falling star represent?
b) Her soul going to heaven
d) It is close to sunrise
c) The lights on the tall Christmas tree she envisioned
a) The upcoming snow storm
30s - Q6
6. "She was evidently trying to warm herself," they said. But no one knew what beautiful visions she had seen and in what a blaze of glory she had entered with her dear old grandmother into the heavenly joy and gladness of a new year." What vision did the little match girl see lit the first match?
d) Her kind and loving grandma
a) Delicious food on a table
b) A beautiful Christmas tree
c) An iron stove
30s - Q7
7. How do you know that the little girl is poor?
c) Her little hands were numbed with cold
b) At home it was cold too, above her the roof, through which the wind whistled, the largest cracks were stopped up with straw and rags
d) She carried a quality of matches in an old apron
a) She saw a delicious roast goose in a window through a candle light
30s - Q8
8. Who was the one person who loved her but was now no more?
c) Her Grandmother
b) Her mother
d) Her dog
a) Her sister
30s - Q9
9. What does it mean, "with her grandmother she had entered on the joys of a new year"?
c) Her grandmother found her and took her home
a) The little girl died and entered heaven with her grandmother
d) The little girl felt asleep and someone gave her a blanket to stay warm
b) It was morning and the little girl was no longer cold
30s - Q10
10. what is the central idea of, "The Little Match Girl"?
c) Having food and warmth is what saved the little girl
a) Wishing on a falling star made the little girls dreams come true
b) The poor girl never gave up hope
d) Children from poor families don't have the same luxuries as children from affluent families
30s - Q11
11. The "scratch!" sound the first match makes is an example of
a) Auditory imagery
b) Simile
c) Irony
d) Metonymy
30s - Q12
12. What does the girl do to keep the vision of her grandmother present?
b) She closes her eye and hopes for the best
a) She tries to grab her grandmother
d)She lights all the matches
c) She chases after her grandmother
30s - Q13
13. Why did the young girl sell matches?
c) For buying a shelter to protect against the cold
d) None of the above
b) To earn money to support her poor family
a) To buy a roast goose
30s - Q14
14. What did the visions represent to the little match girl each time she lit a match?
d) Each match represented her family members
a) Each match represent the cold weather
b) The matches represented the fear she had going home without any money
c) Each match is a vision of her hopes and dreams
30s - Q15
15. What does the falling star represent?
b) Her soul going to heaven
a) The upcoming snow storm
d) The lights on the tall Christmas tree she envisioned
c) It is close to sunrise
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