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An Ancient New Year
Questions
D 1. When do people think that the first New Year's Day wascelebrated?
A. about 50 years agoB. millions of years agoC. hundreds of years agoD. thousands of years ago
A 2. New Year's Day might have first been celebrated in ancientBabylon.
A. trueB. false
3. Why were early New Year's Days celebrated in the spring?They celebrated the planting of crops.
A 4. Who was Janus?A. a Roman godB. a person with two headsC. both A and BD. neither A nor B
5. What did Janus symbolize?It symbolized old and new.
B 6. What are two New Year's symbols that are used today?A. a ticking clock and a calendarB. an old man and a babyC. a baby and a ticking clock