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Context Questions
I. Read the extract given below and answer
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Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was
nearly darl,
evening-- the last evening of the year. In this cold and quite dark and
went along the street
poor little
a
girl bareheaded,
and with
arkness thandere
feet. When she left home she had slippers on, it is naked
true; but wha
was the good of that?" what

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weather there in the
story?
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i) The girl had slippers on, but they were of no use. Why?

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and answer the questions
below
the extract given
I. Read naked feet, that were quite
maiden walked on with her tiny old
So the little matches in an

cold. She carried

a quantity of
red and blue from hand.
bundle of them in her
and she held
a
lose
apron,
How did she
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little maiden in the
referred to as

(i) Who is
her shoes?

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does the author describe
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(1v) What tells you that the girl was not only trembling with cold but ale
with
hunger?
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(v Explain how the story is interspersed with didactic elements.

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III. Read the

extract given below and answer the
Her little feet she had
questions that follow:
drawn close up to
and colder, and to her, but she grew colder
go home she did not
sold any matches and venture, for she had not
could not bring a
father she would
certainly farthing of money: from her
above her she had get blows, and at home it
was cold too, for
only the roof,
even
though the largest cracks werethrough which the wind whistled,
stopped up with straw and rags.
i) Where was the
girl sitting? How did she
try to warm her
fingers?

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feel as if
she were
did she feel this way? sitting before a large iron stove?
Why
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differentiation.
bring out the theme of class
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society this
in Victorian to prove
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evidence
from the story
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She rubbed another against the wall: it burned brigntly, and where
the light fell on the wall, there the wall became transparent like a
veil, so that she could see into the room.

() What happened when the girl lit the first match?

(11 What did the girl see in the window when she lit the second
match?

11) Explain how the girl's visions are

symbolic of her
undying hope.

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(iv) What does the light from the matches symbolise in the story?
 nnlain why the girl lighted the whole bundle of matches at the end?
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below and answer the questions that follow:

TRead the extract given

at the cold hour of dawn, sat the poor girl, with

But in the corner,

rOSy cheeks and with a smiling mouth, leaning against the wall--frozen
and stark sat the
death the last evening of the old year. Stiff
on
to
her matches, of which one bundle
had been burnt.
child there with
w a r m herself," people
said. No one had the slightest
aShe wanted to
one even dreamed
beautiful things she had seen; no
suspicion of what
with her grandmother she
had entered on
of the splendor in which,

the joys of a new yeaar.

extract above? Why does she has "rosy cheeks"

Which girl is referred to in the
i)
mouth"?
and a "smiling

the
in the
extract above? How does
wnat 1s referred to a s "beautiful things"

girl encounter these "beautiful things?

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grandmother?

(iv) How does the extract bring out the hope for a better life after death?

(v) Give the brief character sketch of the match girl.

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