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Halloween

 Halloween is a yearly festival. Most people celebrate this day on the night of 31 October ( the night before All Saints Day ).

It is the one of the oldest holidays still celebrated and is a contracted form of the phrase All Hallows' Evening, also known as All Saints Day.

It is believed that the history of Halloween stems from a pagan holiday and has its roots in the Celtic Festival of Samhain.

The pagan Celts believed that on that night, the boundary between the world of the living and the dead overlapped.

According to their beliefs, the souls of the dead roamed the streets and villages at night.

The medieval festival of Samhain ( Samhain literally means summer's end ) was the beginning of the Celtic New Year. It was the biggest and most significant holiday.

Today, Halloween is the time of pumpkins, ghosts, monsters and other scary things. Dressing in costumes is one of the most popular Halloween customs.

Children, and also many adults, dress in costumes as witches, ghosts, vampires or other supernatural beings and they go from house to house, asking for treats.

They knock on doors and say : ' trick or treat '.

' Trick or treat ' is a term stemming from the Middle Ages and means - ' give us a treat or we'll pull a prank on you ' . So, people usually give out candy.

   Many people carve Jack - o' - lanterns out of pumpkins. The original Jack O' Lantern was not a pumpkin. He was a man named Jack and was a notorious drunkard and trickster. He was so wicked that neither God or the Devil wanted him.

 To kids, Halloween is seen as one of the best holidays.

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1. When is Halloween celebrated? at the beginning of October31 October1 AprilJe ne sais pas

2. Halloween is a contracted form of the phrase Day of the deadGhosts FestivalAll Hallows EveningJe ne sais pas.

3. What is Samhain and how does it relate to Halloween? It's the ancient feast of the deadIt's the sun god festivalIt's the feast of modern civilizationJe ne sais pas.

4. Samhain festival was popularized as the American New YearCeltic New YearPumpkin New YearJe ne sais pas.

5. The Celts believed that the dead returned to earththe sun was a god named Samhaineverything had a spiritJe ne sais pas.

6. Who or what returned to earth on October 31? The souls of the deadThe vampiresThe witchesJe ne sais pas.

7. Jack - o' - lantern it is a light made from a pumpkinauberginewatermelonJe ne sais pas.

8. Why do they say ' trick or treat ' on Halloween? To chase the evil spirits awayTo chase the dead offTo get lots of candyJe ne sais pas.

9. The saying ' trick or treats' comes from From the 19th CenturyThe Middle AgesAncient EgyptJe ne sais pas.

10. What is the meaning of ' trick or treat ' ? Keep smilingGive moneyGive us a treat or we'll pull a prank on youJe ne sais pas.

11. Who was the original Jack O'Lantern? He was a good manghostwicked manJe ne sais pas.

12. What do children say when they knock on doors on Halloween? trick or treatjoke or sweetscrack a jokeJe ne sais pas.