Halloween webquest

Instructions:
Scan the Qr code and answer the questions:

1. What was the name of the festival which started 2,000 years ago, on which
Halloween is based?

2. What did people light to honour the dead?

3. What was the name of the Roman celebration held in October?

4. What was the purpose of this Roman celebration?

5. ‘All Souls’ Day’ came from which religion?

6. What was the name of the celebration that took place on 1 November?

7. Which English tradition was similar to trick-or-treating?

8. What two things did people in Old England and Ireland do to please the spirits?

9. In which part of America did the first Halloween-like celebrations take place?

10. What were fall festivals originally known as in America?

1.) behind the coffee machine

2.) next to the trashcan at Vanessa’s desk

3.) under a seat

4.) in the curtain

5.) in the women’s toilet

6.) under the doormat

7.) downstairs, next to the lift

8.) letterbox

9.) behind a vase

10.) behind a door

1. Samhain

2. (big) bonfires

3. Feralia

4. to commemorate the passing of the dead

5. Christianity

6. All Saints’ Day

7. mumming

8. set out gifts of food

9. the southern colonies

10. ‘play parties’