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The Holidays Quiz (Diamond)

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The Holidays

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Give the correct word:

a day on which custom or law dsctates a halting of general business activity to commemorate or celebrate a particular event.

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to decorate with ornaments

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to misbehave

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to suspend from above with the lower part dangling free

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to accept

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to put or remain out of sight

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to put into a container

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to make a solemn oath

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to return to a normal healthy state

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a Catholic holy day that opens Lent, a period of fasting and pryer

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a song of joy

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church feast celebrating Christ’s resurrection

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the day or evening before a holiday, event, or festivity

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a string or chain of flowers or ribbons used for decoration

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the week beginning on Palm Sunday and ending on Easter Sunday

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a carved Halloween pumpkin face

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mischievous fairy

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the 40-day period of penitence and fasting from Ash Wednesday to Easter

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a green seedless plant used to decorate Nativity scenes

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a parasitic green plant with white sticky berries symbolic of peace and friendship

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a scene depicting the birth of Christ

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a belief or custom passed from generation to generation

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the men from the East who traveled to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus

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Choose the correct holiday

January 1

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the third Monday in February

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June 14

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the second Sunday in May

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the third Sunday in June

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the first Monday in September

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October 12

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Martin Luther King’s Day

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True or False?

Carols were originally pagan songs sung at the Winter Solstice celebrations in Europe.

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The Winter Solstice is the longest day of the year.

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Christmas Day is the most popular day for breakups.

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Japanese people eat KFC for Christmas dinner.

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Valentine’s Day began in Mexico.

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The Easter Bunny spread across the U.S. in the 1700s after it was introduced by German immigrants.

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April Fool’s began in 1582 when England switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.

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Santa Claus (originally St. Nicholas) was brought to the U.S. by Dutch families.

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The tooth fairy started as a mouse.

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It is bad luck not to kiss a person while standing under a mistletoe.

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The tradition of the Christmas tree was brought to the U.S. by Irish immigrants.

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Mother’s Day is an American invention.

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In Mother’s Day, a pink carnation symbolizes a dead mother.

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Martin Luther King won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

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Give the idiom

don’t question the value of a gift

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adults must be careful about what they say withing the hearing of children

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to start to act in a better or more responsible way

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to show one’s true emotions

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to stop doing an activity for the rest of the day

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