The Graveyard Book - Chapter 5

1.

Multiple Choice

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What is the title of Chapter 5 called?

Dance of Death

Danse Macabre

Dance with Ghosts

Danse Dead

2.

Multiple Choice

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What does the word "macabre" really mean?

It refers to any type of dancing at night

it refers to disturbing, frightening things, death

it refers to violence, aggression and anger

it refers to Halloween, dressing up and black clothing

3.

Multiple Choice

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What 1 item inspired this cartoon made by Disney in 1929?

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Medieval history

The Halloween holiday

The music "The Danse Macabre"

The Day of the Dead

4.

Multiple Choice

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Why did Mrs. Caraway (the Lady Mayoress) and the two men come to the Graveyard to pick the white flowers?

It was a tradition

It was for a fundraiser

So Mrs Caraway could win the next election

To honor her dead husband

5.

Multiple Choice

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Inside the graveyard, exactly where were the special white blossoms growing?

Outside the Owens' Tomb

The Egyptian Walk

By the Bartleby Mausoleum

Around the church belfry

6.

Multiple Choice

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How long has it been since the unique winter flowers have blossomed?

60 years

70 years

80 years

90 years

7.

Multiple Choice

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Why did Silas bring Bod human clothes for the first time?

So he could get used to them and to blend in the human world

Because it was getting cold in the graveyard

Because the sheet was a bit tattered and worn

8.

Multiple Choice

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All the residents of the graveyard were singing for the coming event. Who did NOT sing about the Macabray?

Mother Slaughter

Mistress Owens

Louisa Bartleby

Silas

9.

Multiple Choice

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How did the HUMAN residents of Old Town react when all the ghosts march into the town?

The screamed in fear and began to run away

They thought they were dreaming and pinched themselves to wake up

They stared, but were unsurprised and others thought it was judgement day

They reacted with violence and began attacking the ghosts

10.

Multiple Choice

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For the very first dance, which character asked the Lady Mayoress to dance: "Gracious lady, this I pray: join me in the Macabray?"

Bod

The Lady on the Grey

Josiah Worthington

Mr Owens

Silas

11.

Multiple Select

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Bod dances with many at the Dance Macabre. Check ALL 3 that he dances with.

Liza Hempstock

Mistress Owens

Fortinbras Bartleby

The Lady on the Grey

Mother Slaughter

12.

Multiple Choice

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The last dance of the night it was required that...

The living danced with the living

The dead dance with the dead

The living pared up with the dead

Everyone danced solo

13.

Multiple Choice

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At the last dance, what does the Lady on the Grey promise Bod?

That he would meet his parents

That he would learn her name

That she would dance with him again

That he would one day ride her horse

14.

Multiple Choice

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What figurative language is being used here?

'Wearing a long grey dress that hung and gleamed beneath the December moon like cobwebs in the dew'

Personification

Metaphor

Simile

Alliteration

15.

Multiple Choice

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What is the symbolism of The Lady on the Grey promise's to Bod..."one day...everyone does."

It shows that one day Bod will grow up and move away

It show that one day Bod will no longer be able to see the ghosts

It shows that one day Bod will die and be transported from life to death

It shows that one day he will become a skilled rider as an adult

16.

Multiple Choice

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Silas in unable to participate in the magical evening with the ghosts and the human townsfolk. Why?

He is neither living nor dead

He is not accepted by the townsfolk

The temptation to kill would be too hard for him

The Lady on the Grey has told him not to

17.

Multiple Choice

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What type of figurative language is used here: "His guardian looked almost heartbroken then, and Bod found himself scared, like a child who has woken a sleeping panther."

metaphor

symbolism

personification

simile

18.

Multiple Choice

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Silas is saddened by The Lady on the Grey's promise to Bod. What does it remind Silas of?

That soon Bod will grow up as a human and his life will end, but Silas will go on forever.

That one day Silas will have to watch Bod fall off a horse as he gets riding lessons

That one day Bod will think the Lady on the Grey is more important than Silas

The Lady on the Grey is Silas' ex-girlfriend and he still loves her

19.

Multiple Select

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Which 2 characters remembered the details of the previous magical night and would talk about them?

Bod

Silas

Josiah Worthington

Liza Hempstock

20.

Multiple Choice

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What event finally distracted Bod from talking to Silas about the Macabray the day after it happened?

Snow began to fall

Mistress Owens was calling him

The man Jack was climbing the fence

Liza came to visit Bod

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