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