1. How do you celebrate Halloween?
a. I love Halloween--we do it up. 59%
b. I'll hand out candy to the kids, but that's about it. 31%
c. I turn off the porch light and pretend I'm not home. 7%
d. I ignore it. 3%
2. How do you decorate for Halloween?
a. Fall themes: corn sheaves, scarecrows, gourds 31%
b. Spooky themes: ghosts, cobwebs, graveyards 36%
c. Just a jack o' lantern or two 22%
d. I don't decorate for Halloween 11%
3. What's your favorite part of Halloween?
a. The costumes 38%
b. Going trick-or-treating 12%
c. Carving pumpkins 30%
d. Eating candy 20%
4. What are your favorite Halloween/fall foods?
a. Caramel apples 30%
b. Toasted pumpkin seeds 12%
c. Cider and doughnuts 13%
d. Anything made with pumpkin 34%
e. Other (Answers included "Anything made with apples," candy corn, caramel corn, and Halloween candy) 11%
5. Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?
a. I make my costumes (or my kids' costumes) 32%
b. I rent my costumes 1%
c. I buy my costumes 43%
d. I never dress up 24%
6. What's the scariest part of Halloween?
a. Ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night 13%
b. Watching horror movies 35%
c. The way it makes the night feel spooky 23%
d. Neighborhood kids with eggs and toilet paper 16%
e. My child amped up on too much sugar 13%
7. What U.S. city do you most associate with Halloween?
a. Salem, MA, home of the Salem Witch Trials 55%
b. Anoka, MN, the self-described Halloween Capital of the World 2%
c. Detroit, MI, and Devil's Night shenanigans 4%
d. New York City, and Greenwich Village's wild Halloween parties 3%
e. My home town, of course! 36%
8. What are your favorite Halloween symbols?
a. Tombstones, skeletons, and bones 6%
b. Jack-o-lanterns and pumpkins 62%
c. Haunted houses 10%
d. Witches and black cats 14%
e. Ravens, crows, vultures and owls 1%
f. Vampires, werewolves, and mummies 4%
g. Bats and spiders 3%
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