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Children clutch sparklers, the air smells of smoke and toffee, and somewhere a straw dummy is about to meet the flames. You might guess this is just a late Halloween party, but it is something entirely its own, and it goes back more than four hundred years. This is Guy Fawkes Night, celebrated every November 5, and it began not with ghosts but with a very real plan to blow up a king.  \nThat plan had a name that still sends a shiver down British spines: the Gunpowder Plot. In 1605, a group of angry conspirators, upset about how Catholics were treated under King James I, hid dozens of barrels of gunpowder in a cellar beneath the Houses of Parliament in London. Their scheme was to light the fuse when the king arrived, but the plot was uncovered when the authorities searched the cellar in the early hours of November 5. The man they caught guarding those barrels was named Guy Fawkes, and though he did not invent the plan, his name is the one history remembered.  \nBecause the king survived, people wanted to celebrate, and that celebration is exactly why the night still lights up Britain today. Within months, Parliament declared November 5 a day of public thanksgiving, and Londoners lit bonfires to mark their ruler's lucky escape. Over the centuries the fires grew bigger, fireworks were added to echo the explosion that never happened, and a new tradition appeared. People began building an effigy, a stuffed dummy meant to represent Guy Fawkes, and placing it on top of the bonfire.  \nThat burning dummy gave the whole holiday one of its strangest customs and even changed the English language. For generations, British children would carry their homemade effigy through the streets asking passersby, \"A penny for the Guy?\" to collect coins for fireworks. That is where the word \"guy,\" meaning any ordinary person, actually comes from, so every time you call your friends \"you guys,\" you are quoting the name Guy Fawkes. People also recite an old rhyme that begins, \"Remember, remember the fifth of November,\" a line that has echoed through classrooms for centuries.  \nToday this centuries-old bonfire finds itself in a friendly tug-of-war with a newer arrival: Halloween. Trick-or-treating and costumes, boosted by American movies and television, have grown hugely popular in Britain, and some worry the older tradition is fading. Yet towns like Lewes in southern England still hold enormous processions, with thousands marching by torchlight in one of the country's biggest November 5 events. So while much of the world hangs up its Halloween decorations, Britain keeps a little gunpowder in its story, remembering a night when a single searched cellar changed history.  \nGuy Fawkes Night  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) What is the central idea the passage develops about Guy Fawkes Night?\u003Cbr>A. It is a religious festival held to honor Catholic conspirators\u003Cbr>B. It is a British holiday rooted in a failed 1605 plot to kill the king\u003Cbr>C. It is a British version of Halloween invented in the last few decades\u003Cbr>D. It is a harvest celebration that later added fireworks and dummies |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  \u003Cbr>2.  \u003Cbr>3.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2) What does the phrase \"a friendly tug-of-war\" suggest about Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night?\u003Cbr>A. The two celebrations are competing for people's attention\u003Cbr>B. The two celebrations both began in the year 1605\u003Cbr>C. The two celebrations have completely merged into one event\u003Cbr>D. The two celebrations are held on the very same night |  |  |  |  | 4.  \u003Cbr>5.  \u003Cbr>6.  \u003Cbr>7.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 3) What does the word \"effigy\" mean as it is used in the passage?\u003Cbr>A. A barrel used to hide gunpowder underground\u003Cbr>B. A stuffed dummy meant to represent a person\u003Cbr>C. 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