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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. What kind of people were the Mayans?
a. agricultural people b. democratic people
c. communist people d. artistic people

2. What information is given first in the article?
a. They could count in millions and used the concept of zero 1,000 years
before the Europeans.
b. During the Golden Age, the Mayans built magnificent cities with wide
boulevards and plazas.
c. For some unknown reason, Mayan civilization disintegrated and their cities

were left abandoned.
d. Mayans never grasped the principle of the wheel.

3. According to the article, why did the Mayan civilization disintegrate and
vanish?
a. A wide spread plague made the people flee the cities.
b. There is no record of why people abandoned the cities.

c. The Mayans lost a war and were all taken as prisoners and slaves.
d. none of the above

4. How were the Mayans smarter than the Europeans?
a. The Mayans could calculate the movements of heavenly bodies before the
Europeans could.
b. The Mayans could predict lunar eclipses with accuracy before the

Europeans could.
c. The Mayans used the concept of zero before the Europeans.
d. The Mayans developed communities of farmers and fishermen before the
Europeans did.

5. How do you know that Mayans fought with other groups of people?
a. There is no record indicating that Mayans fought battles.

b. They had a great battle with the Egyptians which wiped out the Mayan
civilization.
c. Mayan slaves were prisoners taken in battle.
d. none of the above

6. Which of the sentence uses the word bark in the same way it is used
in the article?

a. The captain’s bark sent the seamen back to their stations.
b. The chair was made out of a tree’s bark.
c. The dogs bark when it’s time to eat.
d. The bark of a revolver scared everyone.
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