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A Mayan Life

Part I: Thirteen Ajaw, The Beginning of Time

1. Jolomk'u was located high in the mountains of Guatemala.
        True      False

2. The weather was very warm there.
         True       False

3. The phrase "savage hills" implies that life was very difficult there.
         True       False

4. The Mayans were animists; that is, they saw their God Ajaw as a spirit that infused the natural world around them.
         True       False 5. In this paragraph, the indecipherable stelae In its literal (real) sense, a stele is a stone slab (like a monument) or pillar that bears an inscription. (Hint: Do you see the word script?) With the passage of centuries, the script (writing) becomes hard to decipher or make out, so the reader can't know the meaning of the inscription. may be a metaphor for a thousand centuries of history. The imagery in the paragraph implies there is something mysterious and dark about that particular night.
         True      False

6. The village probably had electricity.
         True         False

7. Pine slivers are
         nuggets of silver     pieces of wood

8. A word that means "burning stakes" is .

9. The villagers feared ghosts and believed they came out and prowled roamed around through the village at night.
         True      false

10. The young girls in the village could openly date their boyfriends.
         True        False

11. Mekel had built his own house of wood, twigs, tree leaves, straw and mud.
         True         False

12. Armadillo shells hung from the oak posts of his house. An armadillo is
          an animal         a fish          a vegetable

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