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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the title of Chapter 5 called?
Dance of Death
Danse Macabre
Dance with Ghosts
Danse Dead
- 2. Multiple Choice
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
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
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
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
How long has it been since the unique winter flowers have blossomed?
60 years
70 years
80 years
90 years
- 7. Multiple Choice
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
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
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
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 Choice
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Choice
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
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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