The _________ unified Central American countries for a short period during the 19th century.

Central America Federation

United Provinces of Central America

Columbia Coalition

Organization of Banana Producing Countries
2.
The _________ Highway is comprised of roads spanning North and South America.

Panamanian

Columbian

Pan-American

Central American
3.
Which letter on the map represents the country of Guatemala?

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A

B

E

D

C
4.
A(n) _________ legislature has only one house.

tricameral

bicameral

unicameral

monocameral
5.
A(n) _________ is a type of cloth woven and worn by Kuna women.

matrilineal

scarf

mola

kuna
6.
Engineers building the Panama Canal dammed rivers to create _________ Lake.

Culebra

Goethals

Gatún

Panamanian
7.
The Mayan city of _________ supported a population of 120,000 at its peak.

Flores

Motagua

Cuchumatenes

Tikal
8.
Which letter on the map represents the country of Honduras?

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A

C

D

B

E
9.
Which statement was NOT a strategy used by American engineers to dig the Panama Canal?

The creation of Gatún Lake reduced the need for digging.

The canal was built to sea level, allowing ocean water to fill the canal.

A series of locks on each end of the Canal lifts ships to the lake.

The main excavation took place in the Culebra Cut.
10.
_________ is the capital of Panama.

Guatemala City

Tegucigalpa

Colón

Panama City
11.
When Panama separated from Spain, it became part of _________.

Guatemala

Costa Rica

Peru

Colombia
12.
He crossed Panama in search of a rumored "southern sea," which turned out to be the Pacific Ocean.

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Manuel Noriega

Lempira

William Gorgas
13.
The main excavation of the Panama Canal took place in the _________ Cut.

Panamanian

Gatún

Culebra

Goethals
14.
In 1998, Hurricane _________ severely damaged several Central American nations, including farms and infrastructure in Honduras.

Hugo

Florence

Katrina

Mitch
15.
A native chief in Honduras who led an unsuccessful rebellion.

Miskito

Garifuna

Fonseca

Lempira
16.
Deaths caused by _________ were a contributing factor of the French failure to complete the Panama Canal.

accident

upset tribes

food poisoning

disease