Dia de los Muertos

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What is the most common image/symbol used for Day of the Dead?

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Sugar skull

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Where do people typically go to celebrate Day of the Dead? Options: Parks, Cemetery, Church, A friend's house

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Cemetery

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Why did the Spaniards try to convert the holiday to Catholicism?

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They thought the ritual to be sacrilegious.

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What do people believe the dead do on Day of the Dead?

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Come back to visit the family

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In terms of the feeling surrounding the Day of the Dead, it is not scary but it is _______.

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celebratory

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What is the traditional flower of Day of the Dead?

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Marigold

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What do people make to honor someone who has died?

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Ofrenda

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How long before the Spaniards came had the indigenous people already been practicing the ritual we would now consider the Day of the Dead?

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3,000 years

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Who drew the most famous skeletons of Día de los Muertos?

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Jose Guadalupe Posada

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Which of the following is a fact about Dia de los Muertos?

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A blend of indigenous and Catholic traditions.