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title: The United States — how Mova does on the tests · Geography
description: Lesson 9 of the geography course of Mova's primary school: 8 of 11 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# The United States

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**Tests:** 8 of 11 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 7 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 9 of the geography course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Why was the capital of the United States put outside every state?

- **1.** Because it was a Native town — no support
- **2.** Because the British chose the place — no support
- **3.** Because no state wanted it — no support
- **4.** So no single state would control the government — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 18: «D.C. stands for District of Columbia, and the capital was put outside every state so that no single state would control the national government.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «control» (+3); the same doer «single state» (+1); the same thing acted on «national government» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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In EU5 the colonial map of North America looks empty before Europeans arrive. What is wrong with that?

- **1.** Only a few hundred people lived there, mostly hunters by the coast — no support
- **2.** Millions of Native Americans already lived there — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** The land was all ice then — no support
- **4.** Nothing, the land was empty — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 9: «Millions of Native Americans lived in North America before Europeans came, and diseases such as smallpox (new to them, so their bodies had no defences), wars a…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+2); the same doer «millions» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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What made diseases so deadly for Native Americans after Europeans arrived?

- **1.** Their food made the germs stronger and spread them faster from town to town — no support
- **2.** Native doctors refused to help — no support
- **3.** They lived in cold places — score 0
- **4.** They had never met these germs, so their bodies had no defences — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 10, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 9, line 9: «Millions of Native Americans lived in North America before Europeans came, and diseases such as smallpox (new to them, so their bodies had no defences), wars a…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «bodies» (+2); the same thing acted on «defences» (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Why did the number of enslaved people grow even after new captives could no longer be imported in 1808?

- **1.** Children born to enslaved mothers were enslaved too — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** Free people sold themselves — no support
- **3.** The law counted them twice — no support
- **4.** More ships brought them anyway, legally — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 10: «Around 400,000 enslaved Africans were shipped directly to the land that became the United States, and bringing in new captives was banned in 1808, but children…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «enslave» (+2); the same thing acted on «children» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Why do many US places, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, have Spanish names?

- **1.** The names were chosen in 1959 — no support
- **2.** They were named by Columbus — no support
- **3.** Spanish was the language of the 13 colonies — no support
- **4.** Spain and then Mexico ruled those lands first — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 15: «Spanish settlers founded St Augustine in Florida in 1565, the oldest city founded by Europeans in the 48 neighbouring states that has been lived in ever since,…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «rule» (+3); the same doer «spain» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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bro says alaska is huge so loads of ppl must live there. right?

- **1.** Yes, more than live in California and Texas together — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No, it is cold and remote, so few people live there — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** No, nobody at all lives there — no support
- **4.** Yes, it has the biggest city — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Which is true about California?

- **1.** It has more people than any other state — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It is the smallest state in the whole country — no support
- **3.** It joined in 1959 — no support
- **4.** It was bought from Russia — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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What heats the water that shoots out of Yellowstone's geysers?

- **1.** Hot springs that flow in from the sea — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Burning coal under the park — no support
- **3.** The sunshine on the lakes — no support
- **4.** Hot rock above a volcanic hotspot — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Why did the United States go so long without an official language?

- **1.** The Spanish king forbade it — no support
- **2.** English was used everywhere anyway, and many languages were spoken — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10
- **3.** English was banned after 1776 — score 2
- **4.** Congress could not agree on spelling — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 10, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 9, line 16: «Since a presidential order in 2025, English has been the official language of the United States, after more than 200 years with none, because English was used…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «use» (+4); the same thing acted on «english» (+4); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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When the Louisiana Purchase was signed in 1803, who was left out of the deal?

- **1.** The United States — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Native peoples who lived on that land — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The Spanish settlers who had lived in New Orleans for years — no support
- **4.** France — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Settlers crossing west in wagons met which mountains as the hardest barrier?

- **1.** The high, young Rocky Mountains — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** The low Appalachians — no support
- **3.** The hills of Rhode Island — no support
- **4.** The Great Plains — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 12: «Ben Nevis in Scotland is the highest mountain in the UK at 1,345 metres, Yr Wyddfa, also called Snowdon, is the highest in Wales at 1,085 metres, and Scafell P…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «highest mountain» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Ascertain the number of constituent states of the United States of America.

- **1.** Fifty-two — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Thirteen — no support
- **3.** Forty-eight — no support
- **4.** Fifty — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Identify the state from which the Territory of Alaska was acquired in 1867.

- **1.** The Kingdom of Spain — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Kingdom of Denmark — no support
- **3.** The United Kingdom — no support
- **4.** The Russian Empire — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relative ages of the principal mountain ranges of the United States?

- **1.** Both ranges were formed in the twentieth century — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Appalachians are older and more eroded than the Rockies — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The Rockies are older and more eroded than the Appalachians — no support
- **4.** Both ranges are of identical age — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the official language of the United States.

- **1.** Spanish was so designated in 1565 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** English was so designated by Congress in 1776 — no support
- **3.** English was so designated by presidential order in 2025 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** No language has ever been so designated — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/9-the-united-states/e4/)

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