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