KEY: Trick or treat! It's Halloween

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TRICK OR TREAT! IT'S HALLOWEEN

1.    Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE? Copy the evidence from the text. No marks are given for only TRUE or FALSE.

a)    Halloween was originally a Christian celebration.

• FALSE: Halloween originated in Europe as a Celtic New Year celebration. For the Irish, in the Celtic calendar, October 31st was Samhain, a pagan festival.

b)    Like the Celts on October 3lst, Irish immigrants in the USA wore disguises in order to frighten away the evil souls.

• FALSE: (...) Irish began to immigrate (...) fleeing from Ireland's potato famine of 1846. They began to dress up in costumes and go from house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today's trick-or-treat tradition.

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