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The only rule is that you can catch an apple with your teeth—no hands allowed! This soggy, giggly contest is called bobbing for apples, and people have been playing it for hundreds of years. If you have ever tried it, you know it is much harder than it looks, because those apples keep bobbing away just as you close your mouth.  \nThose runaway apples were once part of something much bigger than a party trick. Bobbing for apples grew out of harvest festivals, back when autumn meant orchards heavy with ripe fruit and long celebrations to mark the end of the growing season. One old cousin of the game was called snap-apple, where an apple was tied to a string and swung in the air while players tried to bite it—again, with no hands. Reaching for a spinning apple with your mouth was probably even messier than fishing one out of a tub!  \nCatching an apple was fun, but people in the 1800s believed those apples could do something stranger: tell your future. At parties, some players told a story that the first person to bite a bobbing apple would be the next to marry, and others peeled an apple in one long ribbon to see whose name the peel might spell. These were fortune-telling party games, played for laughs and thrills rather than as anything serious. They fit the mood of the season, when autumn nights grew long and dark and a spooky guessing game felt just right.  \nThose fireside guessing games sailed across the ocean and landed at American Halloween parties in the early 1900s. By then, families were hosting parties in their homes with apple bobbing, bean-bag tosses, and games where blindfolded guests guessed what they touched. Halloween was becoming a friendly neighborhood holiday, and hosts filled the evening with contests so nobody stood around bored. Newspapers and magazines of the day even printed suggestions for party games, spreading the same ideas from town to town.  \nMany of those old games are still bouncing around today, though a few have been made safer along the way. Because sharing a tub of water can spread germs, lots of schools now hang apples from strings or have kids grab doughnuts dangling on threads instead. You might also see a plastic version with floating toys, so nobody has to dunk a face at all. The next time an apple slips away from your teeth, remember you are playing a game your great-great-grandparents may have loved on a chilly autumn night long ago.  \n Bobbing for Apples and Other Halloween Games Name:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) What is the main rule of bobbing for apples?\u003Cbr>A. You must swing an apple on a string.\u003Cbr>B. You must guess an object while blindfolded.\u003Cbr>C. You must catch an apple using only your teeth.\u003Cbr>D. You must peel an apple in one long strip. |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  \u003Cbr>2.  \u003Cbr>3.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2) According to the fifth paragraph, what do many schools use instead of a shared water tub?\u003Cbr>A. Apples hung from strings or doughnuts dangling on threads.\u003Cbr>B. Snap-apple, apple peeling, and harvest dances.\u003Cbr>C. Bean-bag tosses and blindfold guessing games.\u003Cbr>D. Fortune-telling, newspaper contests, and neighborhood parades. |  |  |  |  | 4.  \u003Cbr>5.  \u003Cbr>6.  \u003Cbr>7.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 3) In the third paragraph, what did people in the 1800s believe apples could do?\u003Cbr>A. They believed apples could scare away spirits.\u003Cbr>B. They believed apples could tell your future.\u003Cbr>C. They believed apples could bring good harvests.\u003Cbr>D. They believed apples could cure illnesses. |  |  |  |  | 8.  \u003Cbr>9.  \u003Cbr>10.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 4) Why have many schools changed how the game is played today?\u003Cbr>A. Because apples have become too heavy to bite.\u003Cbr>B. Because water tubs are too expensive to buy.\u003Cbr>C. 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