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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Education
B Tourism
C Banking
D Trade
Question #2
A Corpus Christi
B Brownsville
C Laredo
D Houston
Question #3
A There is very little agriculture in MexAmerica
B Agriculture is important to the economy of select places in MexAmerica, but is not widespread
C Agriculture is important to the economy of most parts of MexAmerica.
D Agriculture is widespread and central to the economy of the region
Question #4
A Hurricane
B Tornado
C Lightning
D Flash Flood
Question #5
A Key West
B Fort Lauderdale
C Galveston
D South Padre Island
Question #6
A The Gulf Coastal Plain
B The Intermontane
C The Rocky Mountains
D The Great Plains
Question #7
A Areas set aside for long-term residence motels for foreign workers.
B Cities that contain historical buildings from previous Spanish occupation.
C Spanish settlements that refused to move after the Treaty of Guadalupe that were absorbed into the United States.
D Settlements where people live in trailers, shacks, and other substandard housing.
Question #8
A The Rocky Mountains
B The Gulf Coastal Plain
C The Great Plains
D The Basin and Range
E All of these answer choices are physiographic subregions that make up MexAmerica
Question #9
A The atomic bomb
B The computer
C The electric automobile
D Military aircraft
Question #10
A About twenty-five percent of the population is of Spanish descent
B The humid and wet climate attracted early Anglo settlement in the region
C Native Americans account for about one percent of the population
D Excluding transitional areas, the region extends into Colorado and Utah
E The region includes the entire U.S. – Mexico border
Question #11
A West Indian manatee
B Vaquita
C Long-toed salamander
D Shortnose sturgeon
E Silvery minnow
Question #12
A Beer and other beverages
B weapons
C Petrochemicals
D Clothing
E Steel
Question #13
A They are mostly Mexican-owned
B They began in the 1960s as coupon counting houses
C nearly 80% of finished goods are re-exported to the U.S
D The only tariffs are limited to value added during assembly
E They mostly assemble imported, duty-free components/raw materials
Question #14
A The National River List
B America’s Most Beautiful River
C The Official Texas River List
D America’s Longest Rivers
E America’s Most Endangered River
Question #15
A Utah
B Arizona
C Nevada
D California
E Kansas
Question #16
A A very low population
B A suburban population
C An urban population
D A small population
E A young population
Question #17
A Earthquakes
B Drought
C Flooding
D Tornadoes
Question #18
A Cholera
B Bronchial problems
C Hepatitis
D Mosquito-borne diseases
E Arthritis
Question #19
A NAFTA sets up regulations limiting industrial pollution in all three countries, ensuring the costs of manufacturing are similar in each country.
B NAFTA eliminates tariffs and trade restrictions, facilitating export and import between countries in North America.
C NAFTA eliminates trade restrictions on products from embargoed countries.
D NAFTA regulates and enforces protections for workers to ensure that they have safe working environments and fair wages.
Question #20
A East Texas, which was then the Republic of Texas
B California, Nevada, Utah, as well as parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado
C Southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico
D West Texas, as well as parts of New Mexico, and Colorado
Question #21
A Western MexAmerica gets more precipitation.
B Actually northern MexAmerica gets more rain than southern MexAmerica.
C Precipitation is fairly even from east to west.
D Eastern MexAmerica gets more precipitation.
Question #22
A Arizona
B New Mexico
C Texas
D All three states have about the same percentage of Latino residents
Question #23
A Agriculture is widespread throughout MexAmerica because of the region’s rich soils
B In the southern part of the region where it is warm enough to grow frost intolerant crops Students may not think “b” is a viable answers unless center(s) is referenced in the question.
C Near the Rio Grande in the eastern portion of MexAmerica and the Arizona portion of the Colorado River, in the western part of the region
D In the northern part of the region where there is more regular precipitation
Question #24
A Phoenix
B Tucson
C Scottsdale
D Sun City
Question #25
A It increased the flow of American retirees into Mexico
B It increased the flow of Mexican shoppers into the U.S. searching for goods unavailable in Mexico
C It helped increase U.S.-Mexican border integration
D It resulted in the creation of a special tariff class for the maquiladoras
E It resulted in the creation of the so-called ‘twin city’ phenomenon
Question #26
A Near the Sierra Madres
B Near the Rio Grande River
C Near the Grand Canyon
D Near the Gulf of California
Question #27
A Phoenix
B Scottsdale
C Tucson
D Sun City
Question #28
A They pack cooling mud on and within their shells.
B They sweat to cool down.
C They spend much of their lives underground in burrows.
D Stay underwater, using waterholes and rivers to cool down.
Question #29
A Per capita incomes in Mexico are highest in the state of Nuevo Leon
B Since the founding of the first maquiladoras, the average number of births per woman in Mexico have increased
C El Paso’s ‘twin city’ is Juarez
D Many of the world’s leading automobile companies operate maquiladoras
E The leading maquiladora activity is the assembly of garment and textile products
Question #30
A San Antonio
B Santa Fe
C Albuquerque
D Las Cruces
Question #31
A At the end of the Mexican War, the total mexican population in the U.S. was around 82,500
B The first Spanish settlements were in the Upper Rio Grande Valley before 1700
C One of the major PUSH factors related to Mexican immigration into the U.S. is widespread unemployment in Mexico
D Spanish settlement of California began in the mid-1600s
E The Hispanic population in New Mexico is centered in the northern parts of the state as opposed to the border areas
Question #32
A These areas often have lax child-labor laws which allow workers as young as 12 to work in factories.
B They are able to hire Mexican workers for much lower wages than they would have to pay American workers.
C Companies in these areas have to pay no corporate income tax.
D These areas subscribe to no country’s laws on pollution.
Question #33
A New Mexico
B Arizona
C Texas
D Nevada
E California
Question #34
A NAFTA established a trade agreement between Mexico, Canada and the U.S.
B NAFTA was established in 1994
C Mexican exports to the US and Canada decreased but imports from Canada and the U.S. increased
D NAFTA standardized finance and service exchanges
E NAFTA created more jobs for Mexicans
Question #35
A 200 years
B 100 years
C 50 years
D 300 years