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Day of the Dead

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Translate - Day of the Dead

a)

Day of the Deado

b)

De Día los Muertos

c)

Día los Muertos

d)

Día de los Muertos

2.

Day of the Dead happens...

a)

Oct 31

b)

Oct 31 - Nov 1

c)

Nov 1 - Nov 2

d)

Nov 1

3.

Day of the Dead originated in...

a)

Mexico

b)

Central America

c)

South America

d)

Spain

4.

What is an ofrenda?

a)

a bread

b)

a memory table

c)

candy

d)

cut paper

5.

What is put on the memory table?

a)

flowers

b)

candles

c)

pictures

d)

all of these things

6.

What is papel picado?

a)

paper decorations

b)

candy sugar skulls

c)

grasshoppers

d)

bread

7.

What is pan de muerto?

a)

candy sugar skulls

b)

the cemetery

c)

a bread

d)

a sauce

8.

What is mole?

a)

a grasshopper

b)

candy sugar skulls

c)

flowers

d)

a spicy chocolate sauce

9.

What is the flower of the holiday?

a)

roses

b)

tulips

c)

marigolds

d)

mums

10.

What are calaveras?

a)

drinks

b)

music

c)

candy sugar skulls

d)

memory table

11.

Ofrendas are assembled ...

a)

at home

b)

at the cemetery

c)

at the home and cemetery

d)

at work

12.

People go to the cemetery...

a)

to cry

b)

to scare people

c)

to have a festival

d)

to rob graves

13.

During Day of the Dead people...

a)

are sad

b)

are mad

c)

are embarrassed

d)

are celebrating

14.

If someone made a memory table for Señora they would put _______ on it.

a)

a fishing pole

b)

a tennis racket

c)

pictures of her cats

d)

broccoli

15.

What state has a lot of people celebrating Day of the Dead?

a)

Texas

b)

New York

c)

Nevada

d)

Ohio

16.

What type of bug is sold at the marketplace?

a)

spiders

b)

cockroaches

c)

grasshoppers

d)

beetles

17.

What is the main symbol for Day of the Dead?

a)

a skeleton

b)

a vampire

c)

a witch

d)

a werewolf

18.

What are the colors for Day of the Dead?

a)

orange and black

b)

no colors

c)

pink and gray

d)

bright colors

19.

This also is part of Day of the Dead.

a)

music and dancing

b)

face painting

c)

parades

d)

all of these

20.

The true meaning behind Day of the Dead is...

a)

the birthday of the skeletons

b)

Mexican Independence Day

c)

honoring loved ones that have passed away

d)

the anniversary of the Mexican president

21.

What do they believe helps guide the spirits back for Día de los Muertos?

a)

the moon

b)

the monarch butterflies

c)

boats

d)

a time machine