Multiple choice general knowledge

In Hans Christian Anderson's The Tinder Box, the fortunes of an impoverished soldier take a turn for the better when he comes into possession of a magic tinder box:

  1. By stealing it from the sleeve of an evil old woman

  2. From a room hidden inside a tree

  3. As a reward for helping the King of the Dwarfs to cross a river

  4. From a tower whose door was visible only once in a hundred years
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B Correct answer
Explanation

In the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, a witch tells a soldier to climb down into a hollow tree. Inside, he finds three chambers guarded by dogs with large eyes, where he retrieves the magic tinder box and gold.

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