What Scares You?

Multiple Choice

What scares you most?

• snakes

• bees

• spiders

• bats

• Studies show about half of the population seriously afraid of snakes. ophidiophobia

• Between 3-6% of the population suffer from acrachnophobia - serious fear of spiders

• Only about 1% of all types of spiders are dangerous to humans

Multiple Choice

Which of the following scares you most?

• heights

• social settings

• the dark

• tight spaces

• Study finds that people 60 and older more afraid of heights, while those under 40 are more afraid of spiders

• fear of heights - acrophobia

• fear of social setting - social phobia - begins in the teenage years

Multiple Choice

Which scares you most?

• flying (airplanes)

• boats

• elevators

• driving

• Amaxophobia - fear of either driving or riding in a car

• 66% of Americans have some driving anxiety

• about 25 million American adults have a fear of flying (aerophobia)

Reorder

Put these novels in the order in which they were published?wing

• Frankenstein

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

• Dracula

• The Shining

1

2

3

4

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

• Written by Mary Shelley in 1816

• Dr. Victor Frankenstein created the monster