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He and a small group of plotters planned to blow up the building the next morning, when King James I would be inside. But someone had sent a warning letter, guards searched the cellars, and Fawkes was caught red-handed before he could light a single fuse. More than four hundred years later, people across the United Kingdom still light bonfires every November 5 to mark the night the plot failed. If you have ever heard the rhyme\"Remember, remember, the fifth of November,\" you have brushed against one of Britain's oldest surviving traditions.  \nThat rhyme has outlasted almost everyone who first sang it, and so has the reason behind it. The Gunpowder Plot was born out of religious conflict, because England was a Protestant country and Fawkes and his fellow conspirators were Catholics who felt persecuted under the crown. They hoped that destroying the king and his government would spark change for English Catholics. Their leader was actually a man named Robert Catesby, not Fawkes, even though history remembers Fawkes best. Why does the guard get top billing instead of the mastermind? Because Fawkes was the one caught in the cellar with the gunpowder, and his name was the one everybody knew.  \nCatching the plotters gave the government a story worth celebrating, and it wasted no time telling it. Within weeks, Parliament passed an act calling for a yearly day of thanksgiving to remember the king's survival, and church bells rang across the country. At first the night was openly political and even antiCatholic, with sermons and public thanks for the Protestant king. People lit bonfires to show loyalty, and the fires became the beating heart of the whole event. Over the centuries, though, the sharp religious edge slowly softened, and the evening drifted from a solemn thanksgiving toward a night of noise, warmth, and fun.  \nThat drift from politics to party is easiest to see in the strange custom of the effigy. For generations, children built a stuffed figure called a \"guy\" out of old clothes stuffed with newspaper, then paraded it through the streets asking passersby for \"a penny for the guy. \" At the end of the night, the guy was placed on top of the bonfire and burned, a nod to the plotter who never got to light his fuse. Fireworks joined the tradition too, standing in for the explosion that never happened, and today they are the part most people picture first. Here is a twist worth noticing: the word \"guy,\" which now means any person at all, comes straight from these burned figures of Guy  \nFawkes.  \nThose fireworks and effigies now face a rival that did not exist in Britain for most of this history: American-style Halloween. For centuries, October 31 was a quiet night in the UK, and November 5 owned the autumn. But over the last few decades, trick-or-treating, costumes, and pumpkin carving have spread across Britain, carried largely by movies, stores, and television. Some Britons grumble that Halloween is crowding out their homegrown holiday, while others simply enjoy having two reasons to celebrate in one week. The  \ntwo nights sit only five days apart, so shops now stack pumpkins and sparklers side by side on the same shelves.  \nThat crowded shelf raises a real question about which tradition will win the autumn. Guy Fawkes Night still draws huge crowds to organized displays in parks and stadiums, where safety rules have replaced the backyard bonfires of the past. Historians point out that the holiday has already reinvented itself once, sliding from angry religious protest to cheerful family spectacle, so it may simply adapt again. What began as a plot to destroy a king ended up giving the English language a everyday word and Britain a night of fire that has burned for over four centuries. Not bad for a scheme that failed before it ever struck a match.  \nGuy Fawkes Night  \nName:  \n\n| Solve ","cbCaibxaA3AdWJHD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibxaA3AdWJHD","pdf",115671,"English","# Reading Comprehension Questions\n## Questions 1-5","[{\"question\":\"Why does Guy Fawkes get more recognition than the real leader, Robert Catesby?\",\"answer\":\"The passage says Fawkes was caught in the cellar with the gunpowder, and his name was widely known, unlike the mastermind.\"},{\"question\":\"How did Guy Fawkes Night change from earlier celebrations to modern times?\",\"answer\":\"It shifted from solemn religious thanksgiving with political and anti-Catholic tones toward a noisy, warm, fun family spectacle featuring displays, fireworks, and effigies.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does the “guy” effigy play in connecting the tradition to 1605?\",\"answer\":\"The passage explains that the burned “guy” figure nods to the plotter who never got to light his fuse, linking the custom to the failed plot.\"}]","Guy Fawkes Night - Reading Comprehension Questions | PDF",1790807393,25]