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Read the Extract Given Below and Answer the Question that Follow. What Happened When She Stretched Her Hand to Touch? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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She lighted another match, and then she found herself sitting under a beautiful Christmas-tree. It was larger and more beautifully decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door at the rich merchant’s. Thousands of tapers were burning upon the green branches, and colored pictures, like those she had seen in the show- windows, looked down upon it all. The little one stretched out her hand towards them, and the match went out.

The Christmas lights rose higher and higher, till they looked to her like the stars in the sky. Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.

What happened when she stretched her hand to touch?

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उत्तर

As soon as she stretched her hand to touch the match went out and the tree disappeared.

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अध्याय 2.07: The Little Match Girl - Passage 3

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