Maya Unit Test Review

1. The structures found by archaeologists in Maya cities like Tikal, built more than 1,000 years ago, are made of

• a. mud.
• b. stone.
• c. wood
• d. thatch.

2. Which of these modern countries is in the area where Maya civilization developed and is home to large numbers of Maya today?

• a. Panama
• b. Venezuela
• c. Guatemala
• d. Costa Rica

3. What made it possible for the Olmecs and the Maya to create permanent settlements?

• a. sailing
• b. farming
• c. metal tools
• d. wild animals

4. Maya who lived in many different communities over a wide area shared the same

• a. army.
• b. calendar.
• c. landscape.
• d. government.

5. One skill that the Maya adapted from the Olmecs was a way to

• a. make tools out of metal.
• b. build carts that had wheels.
• c. use horses or oxen to pull plows.
• d. write by using pictures as symbols.

6. One group is missing from this social pyramid. What is true for only that group?

• a. They read the calendar.
• b. They imported rare products.
• c. They ruled the Maya.
• d. They might someday be free.

7. Maya priests led rituals and offered sacrifices. What was another role of the priests?

• a. to foretell the future
• b. to lead peasant armies
• c. to carve temple sculptures
• to conduct long-distance trade

8. Which of these foods would have been new to the Maya when it was introduced from Europe after 1500?

• a. beans
• b. squash
• c. sugar
• d. chocolate

9. When did the Maya first give a girl tools for spinning and weaving?

• a. when she was three-months old
• b. at her coming-of-age ceremony
• c. when she was ready to marry
• d. about a month after her wedding

10. When a Maya couple first married, where did they go to live?

• a. to a faraway city, where they could have some independence
• b. to the husband's childhood home, where his wife helped cook
• c. to a farm a few miles away, where they raised their own food
• d. to the home of the wife's parents, where her husband would work for them