The life of Hans Christian Andersen is a very interesting one. "A Life That Changed" offers only a brief ________________________ into the writer's life.

As a little boy, Hans liked to write his own plays. Afterward, he would stage them in the little ____________________ theater his father made him.

Hans was eleven when his father died. The three-year period that followed, until he left for Copenhagen, was the unhappiest ______________________ of the young boy's life.

Hans, with his odd ways and habit of staring off into space, was not like his fellow workers. They must have thought of his behavior as very _____________________.

If Hans had overheard the remarks of his fellow workers, he would have known they felt ____________________ for him.

The cruel jokes played on Hans by his fellow workers must have upset him greatly, He had always been a very ___________________ child, protected by his parents.

Hans must have been nervous about asking his mother if he could leave home. He must have been afraid that she would _____________________ the idea.

Hans was so eager to leave home that he ___________________ until his mother agreed to let him go to Copenhagen.

Andersen did not start out writing children's stories. He ___________________ many different kinds of writing first.

Andersen showed his plays to theater owners in Copenhagen. Sadly, he could not ___________________ them to put on his plays.

Andersen was a complete failure as a writer of plays. He did not _____________________ success until he began writing children's stories.

When writing a play, Andersen must have thought back to his childhood. He would have ____________________ the plays he put on in his little toy theater.

"The Ugly Duckling" tells the story of a duckling that turned out to be a swan. In the story, the change from an ugly duckling to a beautiful swan is gradual rather than _______________________.

Some of the people who turned down his plays must have heard of Andersen after he became famous. They would have had to ____________________ their opinion of him.

The world owes a great debt to Hans Christian Andersen. His stories have _____________________ millions of children for more than one hundred and fifty years.