Here they are the answers of QUIZ # 1
Halloween is the darkest of the feast nights celebrated widely in the English-speaking world. For some, it is a night of revelry and masquerade, with everday social distinctions blurred by disguise. Others claim — or fear — to see a different kind of blurring, between the world they know and a phantasmal one beyond. One undersized but vocal faction thinks primarily of gorging itself on candy. But no matter what strange forces you encounter as the witching hour approaches on October 31, you will face them more knowledgeably if you have already conquered our Hardly Horrifying Halloween Quiz.
1. Halloween shades
Which colors are particularly associated with Halloween? A
B) Blue and yellow
C) Gold and green
D) Purple and red
Like the red and green of Christmas, the Halloween colors are an advertising rather than a folk tradition. Still, the symbolic association of black with mystery, death and the occult, and of orange with the harvest, was natural enough to win ready acceptance. Not to mention that you need both colors if you want to draw a jack-o’lantern.
2. The light within
A distinctive Halloween custom is the making of jack-o’lanterns, nowadays usually from pumpkins but originally from neeps (turnips). Which figure from Irish folklore is associated with the origin of the jack-o’lantern? C
B) A husband whose demonic mistress turned his wife into a dog
C) A thief who tricked the devil into promising not to claim his soul
D) A warrior who slew a hound of Culann the smith, then took its place
Stingy Jack was an itinerant rascal who made his living by stealing the necessities of life, including his beloved turnips, from the decent people he met on his travels. One day the devil came to collect Jack’s soul, but Jack tricked the devil into climbing a tree, and trapped him there with the sign of the cross. To win his freedom, the devil was obliged to renounce his claim on Jack’s soul. But since Jack was not allowed into heaven either, Jack’s soul wanders the earth for eternity, with just a single glowing ember from hell to light his way. He carries the coal in the first jack-o’lantern — a hollowed out turnip, with holes carved into the skin to release the light.
3. Naming the night
Halloween has a variety of traditional names in the British Isles where the festival originated. Which of the following is NOT one of them? B
B) Eldereven
C) Hop-tu-Naa
D) Pooky Night
An ancient name associated with Halloween is that of the pre-Christian harvest festival Samhain (pronounced approximately “SAH-wen”), which is Irish Gaelic for “summer’s end”. Allantide (Cornwall), Hop-tu-Naa (Isle of Man) and Pooky Night (Ireland) are just some of the regional names for and variants of Halloween.
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