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What does Dia de los Muertos mean?

• Day of the Mortars

• Day of the Mouse

• Day of the Skull

• Day of the Dead

What is an ofrenda?

• An ofrenda is a table for a big meal for your family and friends

• An ofrenda is a skull made of sugar and decorated with icing and glitter

• An ofrenda is a photo of an ancestor in a small metal frame

• An ofrenda is an altar full of offerings to ancestors

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What is something you might find on an ofrenda?

• Marigolds

• Photos of ancestors

• Offerings of food

• All these things

Items on the ofrenda represent

• Halloween decorations

• Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water

• Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, El Salvador, Belize, Costa Rica, and Guatemala

• Food to eat

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What other items might you find on an ofrenda?

• Halloween decorations

• Anything your ancestors enjoyed when they were alive

• Pictures of living people

• Scary things

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What culture started Dias de los Muertos?

• The Americans

• The Celtics

• The Egyptians

• The Aztecs

Why are marigolds used to celebrate Dias de los Muertos?

• Because they are gold like golden treasure

• Because they are orange like cheese

• Because their color and scent is said to pass through to our ancestors

• Because they are cheap and easy to find

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Why do some people celebrate Dia de los Muertos?

• Because it's a big party and that's really fun.

• Because it's the end of the harvest season.

• Because it's Halloween.

• Because remembering our ancestors keep them alive in the land of the dead.

Families build altars called_______ with pictures, foods, and other offerings.

• Offerings

• galletas

• ofrendas

• angelitos

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Dia de los Muertos is not a one-day celebration. How long is it?

• 17 days and nights

• several days

• only two weeks in the summer

• two weekends out of the month of June