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A) Mexican lowlands B) Honduran coastal regions C) Nicaraguan plains D) Guatemalan highlands
A) Three B) Four C) Five D) Two
A) Four B) Three C) Two D) Five
A) 90,000 B) 1,000,000 C) 800,000 D) 400,000
A) Alta Verapaz B) Izabal C) El Quiché D) Southern Petén
A) 3,000 B) 12,000 C) 85,000 D) 9,000
A) Ancient trade routes B) Mayan expansion C) Colonial displacement D) Recent migrations
A) 49,000 B) 12,000 C) 9,000 D) 3,000
A) Chichicastenango B) Quetzaltenango C) Sipacapa D) Uspantán municipio
A) 8,000 B) 15,000 C) 3,000 D) 6,000
A) Mam B) Kʼicheʼ C) Qʼeqchiʼ D) Kaqchikel
A) 1,000,000 B) 90,000 C) 800,000 D) 400,000
A) Rabinal Achi B) Chilam Balam C) Codex Maya D) Popol Vuh
A) Qʼumarkaj B) Chichicastenango C) Quetzaltenango D) Uspantán
A) Guatemala City B) Lake Atitlán C) San Marcos D) Santa Cruz del Quiché
A) 85,000 B) 90,000 C) 400,000 D) 15,000
A) Aguacatán and Tectitán B) Cubulco and Rabinal C) Chichicastenango and Quetzaltenango D) Santa Cruz and Tactic
A) San Marcos B) Baja Verapaz C) Huehuetenango D) El Quiché
A) Campbell B) Ethnologue C) Popol Vuh D) The Achi Maya
A) Only in urban areas B) Yes C) Only during ceremonies D) No
A) 90,000 B) 800,000 C) 1,000,000 D) 400,000
A) Cuchumatán mountains B) Northern shore of Lake Atitlán C) Southern Petén D) Izabal department
A) 49,000 B) 15,000 C) 8,000 D) 90,000
A) Vicinity of Lake Atitlán B) Tectitán C) Sipacapa D) Guatemala City
A) 20,000 B) 8,000 C) 6,000 D) 15,000
A) 8,000 B) 15,000 C) 6,000 D) 3,000
A) Tectitán B) Uspantán C) Aguacatán D) Sipacapa
A) Alta Verapaz B) San Marcos C) Huehuetenango D) El Quiché
A) Mam B) Awakatek C) Ixil D) Tektitek
A) 400,000 B) 800,000 C) 70,000 D) 478,000
A) Izabal and Guatemala B) San Marcos and Huehuetenango C) El Quiché and Baja Verapaz D) Alta Verapaz and Petén
A) 70,000 B) 15,000 C) 20,000 D) 6,000
A) Sipacapa B) Uspantán C) Tectitán D) Aguacatán
A) Huehuetenango B) San Marcos C) Alta Verapaz D) El Quiché
A) 70,000 B) 90,000 C) 49,000 D) 85,000
A) Lake Atitlán B) Ixil Triangle C) Southern Petén D) Cuchumatán mountains
A) Kekchi B) Quiché C) Teko D) Awakatek
A) Over 6,000 B) Over 1,000 C) Over 70,000 D) Over 20,000
A) Aguacatán B) Purulhá C) Sipacapa D) Tectitán
A) 9,000 B) 1,000 C) 12,000 D) 3,000
A) It is becoming extinct B) It is growing C) It is staying the same D) It is declining
A) Uspantek node B) Quichean–Mamean node C) Mamean sub-branch D) Poqom-Kʼichean sub-branch
A) Rabinal B) Uspantán C) Purulhá D) Cubulco
A) San Cristóbal Verapaz B) Purulhá C) Rabinal D) Cobán
A) 49,000 B) 90,000 C) 8,000 D) 15,000
A) Only in Guatemala City B) A single continuous territory C) Several small pockets D) Solely around Lake Atitlán
A) Forty B) Twenty C) Thirty D) Fifty
A) Yucatecan B) Mixtec C) Zapotec D) Nahuatl
A) Otomian B) Huastecan C) Tarascan D) Totonacan
A) Guatemala B) Honduras C) Belize D) Mexico
A) 5%–15% B) 10%–20% C) 70%–90% D) 40%–60%
A) No scholars B) Some scholars C) Only Belizean researchers D) All linguists
A) Yucatecan branch B) Kʼichean branch C) Mamean branch D) Huastecan branch
A) Chʼortiʼ B) Chʼoltiʼ C) Chontal Maya D) Chʼol
A) Chʼortiʼ B) Chʼol C) Chontal D) Chʼoltiʼ
A) Chʼoltiʼ B) Chʼol C) Tojolabʼal D) Akatek
A) Huastecan languages B) Qʼanjobʼalan languages C) Tzeltalan languages D) Chʼolan languages
A) Post-classic era B) Classic-era C) Modern era D) Pre-classic era
A) Tzotzil B) Chuj C) Tzeltal D) Chʼol
A) 77,700 B) 100,000 C) 30,000 D) 55,000
A) An economic depression B) Genocidal policies during the Civil War C) Volcanic eruptions D) A major earthquake
A) Poptiʼ B) Akatek C) Chuj D) Tojolabʼal
A) La Trinitaria, Chiapas B) Huehuetenango C) San Miguel Acatán D) Tabasco
A) In Belize B) In Tabasco C) In El Salvador D) In eastern Chiapas
A) Florida B) Ohio C) California D) Texas
A) Los Angeles B) Houston C) New York D) Chicago
A) Portuguese B) Latin C) English D) Spanish
A) The 18th century B) The 21st century C) The 20th century D) The 19th century
A) A completely unified single language B) A desire to migrate exclusively to Europe C) A new writing system based on Spanish D) A shared ethnic identity as Maya
A) Mayapan B) Chichen Itza C) Tikal D) Palenque
A) Citizenship in a single modern nation-state B) Religious affiliation with colonial institutions C) Exclusively political boundaries established by Spain D) Linguistic relationships, ethnic, or cultural traits
A) Currency B) Crops C) Language D) Architecture
A) It refers only to people living outside the Yucatán Peninsula B) It is no longer used by any modern scholars C) Maya peoples do not constitute a homogeneous identity D) It is an ancient Spanish word with no indigenous roots
A) Ten B) Twenty-one C) Five D) Fifty
A) A distinction based purely on the number of speakers B) A classification based on writing systems C) A scientifically accurate and neutral linguistic distinction D) A spurious distinction with racialist overtones
A) 2025 B) 1996 C) 1500 D) 1986
A) European archaeologists B) United States immigration judges C) Maya organisations D) The Spanish colonial government
A) The Spanish colonization of Central America B) The founding of the San Francisco East Bay C) The invention of the postclassical city of Mayapan D) The 1996 peace accords
A) Eastern Chʼolan B) Proto-Chʼolan C) Classic Chʼoltiʼan D) Proto-Yucatecan
A) North America B) Mesoamerica C) South America D) Europe
A) Mixe-Zoque B) Classic Maya C) Proto-Mayan D) Olmec
A) The phonetic method B) The historical transcription method C) The structural derivation method D) The comparative method
A) Auxiliary verbs B) Prepositions C) Relational nouns D) Suffixes
A) Noun incorporation B) Nominative-accusative alignment C) Ergativity D) Tonal inflection
A) Locatives B) Clitics C) Positionals D) Demonstratives
A) Pre-Columbian era B) Archaic period C) Colonial era D) Post-Conquest era
A) Lyle Campbell B) John Justeson C) Karl Sapper D) Terrence Kaufman
A) Around 2200 BC B) Around 500 AD C) Around 3000 BC D) Around 1000 BC
A) Olmec B) Toltec C) Aztec D) Zapotec
A) Maya script B) Cyrillic script C) Greek script D) Latin script
A) Joseph Greenberg B) Noam Chomsky C) David Mora-Marin D) Lyle Campbell
A) The Hokan hypothesis B) The Siouan hypothesis C) The Penutian hypothesis D) The Macro-Mayan hypothesis
A) An anonymous Mesoamerican scholar B) Joseph Greenberg C) David Mora-Marin D) Lyle Campbell
A) Belize B) Honduras C) Guatemala D) Mexico
A) Itzaʼ B) Chicomuceltec C) Lakantum D) Wastek
A) Yucatec Maya B) Mopan C) Wastek D) Itzaʼ
A) Jakaltek B) Chicomuceltec C) Lakantum D) Uspantek
A) CVC B) CCV C) VCV D) CVCC
A) At the ends of words only B) Anywhere within a syllable C) Across syllable boundaries D) At the beginning of words only
A) Monosyllabic B) Disyllabic C) Trisyllabic D) Polysyllabic |