| 1. Under which calendar is New Year's Day
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| | C. Clocks and calendars
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| Jan. 1?
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| | D. Gates and doors
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| A. Julian Calendar
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| | D. Gates and doors
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| B. Gregorian Calendar
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| | QQ: The name of the month is derived from
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| C. Jewish Calendar
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| | Janus, the Roman god of gates and doors,
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| D. Chinese Calendar
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| | and hence of openings and beginnings.
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| E. All of the above
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| | January was the 11th month of the year in
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| B. Gregorian Calendar
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| | the ancient Roman calendar; in the 2nd
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| QQ: New Year's Day is the first day of
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| | century BC, however, it came to be
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| the year, Jan. 1, in the Gregorian
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| | regarded as the first month. On January 1
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| calendar. Traditionally the day has been
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| | the Romans offered sacrifices to Janus so
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| observed as a religious feast, but in
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| | that he would bless the new year.
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| modern times the arrival of the New Year
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| | 7. When to the practioners of Tibetan
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| has also become an occasion for spirited
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| | Buddhism celebrate New Year's?
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| celebration and the making of personal
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| | A. Never
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| resolutions.
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| | B. January
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| 2. What calendar determines the date of
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| | C. February
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| the Chinese New Year?
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| | D. March
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| A. Lunar
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| | C. February
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| B. Solar
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| | QQ: Much of the ritual of Tibetan
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| C. Chinese
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| | Buddhism is based on the esoteric
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| D. Zen
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| | mysticism of Tantra, devotions that
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| A. Lunar
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| | involve both yoga and mantra, or a
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| QQ: The Chinese New Year, traditionally
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| | mystical formula, and ancient shamanistic
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| based on the lunar calendar, is
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| | practices. On special holidays the
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| celebrated in many American cities with
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| | temples, shrines, and altars of the lamas
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| the roar of blazing firecrackers, dancing
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| | are decorated with symbolic figures;
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| dragons made from papier mâché and
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| | milk, butter, tea, flour, and similar
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| cloth, and traditional music.
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| | offerings are brought by the worshipers,
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| 3. Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the
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| | animal sacrifices being strictly
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| new year for what religion?
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| | forbidden. Tibetan Buddhist religious
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| A. Muslim
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| | festivals are numerous. The most notable
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| B. Christian
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| | are New Year's, celebrated in February
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| C. Buddhist
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| | and marking the commencement of spring
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| D. Jewish
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| | 8. The Roman New Year festival was called
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| D. Jewish
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| | the Calends, and people decorated their
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| QQ: Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew, "beginning of
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| | homes and gave each other gifts. In early
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| the year"), Jewish New Year, celebrated
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| | times, the ancient Romans gave each other
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| on the first and second days of the
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| | New Year's gifts of branches from sacred
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| Jewish month of Tishri (falling in
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| | trees. Later they gave small items, such
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| September or October) by Orthodox and
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| | as nuts or coins, imprinted with pictures
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| Conservative Jews and on the first day
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| | of what God?
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| alone by Reform Jews. It begins the
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| | A. Julius Caesar
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| observance of the Ten Penitential Days, a
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| | B. Jesus Christ
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| period ending with Yom Kippur that is the
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| | C. Janus
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| most solemn of the Jewish calendar. Rosh
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| | D. Zeus
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| Hashanah and Yom Kippur are known as the
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| | C. Janus
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| High Holy Days.
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| | QQ: In later years, they gave
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| 4. Kwanzaa is a seven-day holiday that
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| | gold-covered nuts or coins imprinted with
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| begins Dec. 26 and extends through Jan.
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| | pictures of Janus, the god of gates,
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| 1. What does the word mean in Swahili?
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| | doors, and beginnings. January was named
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| A. First fruits
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| | after Janus, who had two faces--one
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| B. First people
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| | looking forward and the other looking
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| C. First days
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| | backward. The Romans also brought gifts
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| D. First dance
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| | to the emperor. The emperors eventually
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| A. First fruits
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| | began to demand such gifts.
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| QQ: Kwanzaa, or matunda ya kwanza, is
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| | 9. What New Year's gift did ancient
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| Swahili for "first fruits". This is an
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| | Persians give?
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| African American holiday observed by
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| | A. Money
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| African communities throughout the world
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| | B. Eggs
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| that celebrates family, community, and
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| | C. Cakes
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| culture. Kwanzaa has its roots in the
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| | D. Rugs
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| ancient African first-fruit harvest
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| | B. Eggs
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| celebrations from which it takes its
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| | QQ: The ancient Persians gave New Year's
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| name. However, its modern history begins
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| | gifts of eggs, which symbolized
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| in 1966 when it was developed by African
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| | productiveness.
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| American scholar and activist Maulana
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| | 10. In ancient Egypt what event dictated
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| Karenga.
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| | the timing of New Year's celebrations?
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| 5. In the Middle Ages most European
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| | A. Pharaoh's birthday
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| countries used the Julian calendar, so
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| | B. Flooding of Nile
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| they observed New Year's Day when?
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| | C. Solar eclipse
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| A. Feb. 14th
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| | D. Exact alignment of stars with Great
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| B. March 25th
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| | Pyramid
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| C. April 1st
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| | B. Flooding of Nile
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| D. May 21st
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| | QQ: In ancient Egypt, New Year was
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| B. March 25th
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| | celebrated at the time the River Nile
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| QQ: In the Middle Ages most European
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| | flooded, which was near the end of
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| countries used the Julian calendar and
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| | September. The flooding of the Nile was
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| observed New Year's Day on March 25,
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| | very important because without it, the
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| called Annunciation Day and celebrated as
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| | people would not have been able to grow
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| the occasion on which it was revealed to
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| | crops in the dry desert. At New Year,
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| Mary that she would give birth to the Son
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| | statues of the god, Amon and his wife and
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| of God.
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| | son were taken up the Nile by boat.
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| 6. The name January is derived from the
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| | Singing, dancing, and feasting was done
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| Roman god Janus. What is he the god of?
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| | for a month, and then the statues were
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| A. Wine and grapes
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| | taken back to the temple.
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| B. Babies and childbirth
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