MAYAS - FAMILY LIFE

All of the following are characteristics of Mayan houses, except:

• One-room huts

• Built of interwoven poles

• With wooden floor

• Covered with dried mud.

• With a separate kitchen building behind the main house.

Life for Mayan peasant families was very simple.

• True

• False

All of the following are women and older girls duties, except .....

• Get the fire burning in the fireplace.

• Clean, pound, pat and cook the corn

• Take care of small children and family´s animals.

• Sweep the house and gather, spin, and wave cotton into cloth.

• Hunt small animals and fish.

All of the following were fathers and sons duties.

• Work in the fields.

• Hunt and trapp animals.

• Make clothes for the family.

For the Mayas, the ..... of a child was a time for rejoicing.

• Death

• Birth

The number ...... was special to Mayan women

because it represented the ...... stones of the home hearth, or fireplace.

• Two

• Three

• Four

• Five

The number ....... was special to Mayan men. It

represented the ....... sides of the plot of land where a boy would spend his life.

• Two

• Three

• Four

• Five

Another important event in every Mayan child’s life was the coming-of-age ceremony. Girls went through this ceremony at age ......, boys at ........

• 12 - 14

• 13 - 15

• 14 - 16

• 17 - 19

Men usually married around age ....... Women married when they were as young as ..........

• 18 - 14

• 20 - 16

• 20 - 14

• 25 - 12

As part of the Mayan marriage customs ......

• Marriages were negotiated by the village matchmaker.

• The bride and groom chose each other.