--- title: Perseus book, The Terrible Head, part 44: the boy wins the Cap, Swor… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1457 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 11 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1457-pg503-part44/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/) / 1457 # Perseus book, The Terrible Head, part 44: the boy wins the Cap, Sword and Shoes on his quest **Tests:** 3 of 11 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1457 of the books 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. 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/books/1457-pg503-part44/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Mate, did the boy actually nick the Gray Sisters' one eye, or did they just lose it? - **1.** He swiped it from the second one, who was groping about, real smooth and cheeky — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** Honestly, bro, the sisters lost it themselves, they were that useless, and he just happened to be standing by when it fell — score 3 - **3.** He totally nicked it right out of the second one's hand, proper sneaky — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** They dropped it themselves, bro, it just slipped out of their hands on the floor — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 760, line 13: «The mother and sisters "turned pale with anger," because they lost the prince to the girl they had mocked.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «mother» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1457-pg503-part44/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Bro, why did the Gray Sisters start bawling their eyes out? - **1.** Cos they were sad about their lost tooth, bro, it hurt them badly — **← Mova's choice** · score -2 - **2.** Cos their tears froze and rattled on the floor after the boy robbed them — **✓ the right answer** · score -3 - **3.** Cos the boy took their eye and then bit their one tooth as well, so they cried and screamed and their tears froze solid — score -3 - **4.** Cos the boy stole their only eye and their tears froze and rattled on the cave floor like hail, and they wailed all night long — score -3 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score -2, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1457, line 10: «The Gray Sisters have "only one eye and one tooth among the three", so the boy steals the eye while it passes from hand to hand.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «eye» (-2). The right option, 2, scored -3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1457-pg503-part44/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} So, wait, which way does the boy have to fly to find the fairies, yeah? - **1.** North, with the sea on his left and the land on his right — score 0 - **2.** South, with the land on his left and the sea on his right — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** Northward first, then turning south at the bend of the river, with the water always on his right side — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** South along the coast, keeping the land on his left and the sea on his right until he finds the garden — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1408, line 6: «Who: Pinocchio and Lamp-Wick, two boys who were lured to the Land of Toys by the Little Man. What: they pretend to be sick, then turn into donkeys, with "long…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «boys» (+3); the same action «turn» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1457-pg503-part44/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} Dude, what's the deal with the fairies' dresses, like, what colours? - **1.** Green, white and red, all three different — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Red, green and gold, all different — no support - **3.** Green, white and red, with golden hems and silver buttons down the front of each dress — no support - **4.** Green, white and red, the colours of the fairy hills, woven with silver thread at the edges of each gown — no support **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/books/1457-pg503-part44/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Ha, so the fairies are dancing round some tree, right, what's special about it? - **1.** It's got pears made of silver — no support - **2.** It's a big oak — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **3.** Just a plain tree — no support - **4.** It's got apples made of gold — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 867, line 7: «What: the oak dreams that "the tree felt itself stretching and spreading out" as new life rushes through him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «tree» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1457-pg503-part44/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Seriously though, what's the sword's blade made of, is it actually diamond? - **1.** Yeah, a diamond blade, proper flashy — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Yeah, a diamond blade, forged by the fairy smiths in the hills and it never gets dull no matter what you cut — no support - **3.** Yeah, a silver blade, proper shiny — no support - **4.** Yeah, it's a proper diamond blade, cut right through stone and everything, proper flashy and sharp — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 517, line 22: «What is a poniard? It is an old word for a dagger, the small blade that Eris brandishes in her hand.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «small blade» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1457-pg503-part44/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Okay, what else did the fairies chuck at him, like, apart from the cap and sword? - **1.** A wallet full of bread and a golden shield with a dragon painted right on the front, sick — no support - **2.** A horse and a bridle, cool — score 2 - **3.** A wallet and a shield, sick — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** They gave him the shoes, the wallet, a shield and a silver flask, and they were well generous — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1457, line 4: «The fairies, who dance round a golden apple tree, give him the Cap of Darkness, the Sword of Sharpness, a wallet and a shield.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fairies» (+3); the same action «give» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1457-pg503-part44/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} So if he puts the cap on, can the fairies even see him or what? - **1.** Yeah, mostly, but the cap hides him from the fairies' eyes once he steps into the garden and stays still — score 0 - **2.** Nope, they can't see him at all, not even them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Nope, the cap makes him totally invisible, so the fairies can't see him even when they look right at him — score 5 - **4.** Nope, they can't see him, not even close — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1423, line 17: «Why the Fairy takes the King: "she had fallen in love with the handsome young King" the moment she saw him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fairy» (+3); the same action «see» (+1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1457-pg503-part44/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Right, where are the Terrible Women chilling when he finds them? - **1.** Under a tall poplar by the big river, all snoozing, with the youngest one's eyes open looking up at the sky — score 4 - **2.** Under a poplar tree by the big river, all snoozing — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Under a poplar tree by the big river, all snoozing away with their wings folded, far from the cave they came out of — score 6 - **4.** Under an oak by the small stream, asleep — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1019, line 6: «who: a young man who wants to be a poet, and a wise woman who lives in a small house by the wayside.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wise woman» (+5); the same property (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1457-pg503-part44/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} Mate, is the youngest one's face just rubbish and scary or what? - **1.** Her face is pretty and kind, and it just makes you sleepy — no support - **2.** Her face is pale and gentle, but it would stone you — score 2 - **3.** Her face is sad and beautiful and full of pity, but it would turn you to stone the moment you looked on it — score 4 - **4.** Her face is sad and beautiful, but it would turn you to stone — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1408, line 1: «Pinocchio and his friend Lamp-Wick pretend to be ill with sore ears and bruised legs, and they laugh about it until they suddenly feel strange. Their arms beco…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «faces» (+3); the same action «grow» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1457-pg503-part44/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Okay, but why does the boy not look at her face then, like, what happens? - **1.** He'd turn to stone from the terror and the pity of it, the same as anyone who looks at her face — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** He'd turn to stone right there on the spot from the terror and the pity of her face, like all the men before him — score -1 - **3.** He'd turn to stone from the terror and the pity of it — **✓ the right answer** · score -2 - **4.** He'd be stuck, cos she'd freeze him with fright — score -3 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 317, line 4: «The children learn to sleep lying flat on a strong wind, and at last the island appears, as if it were looking for them.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «look» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1457-pg503-part44/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following accurately states the means by which the boy first obtains the Gray Sisters' eye? - **1.** He snatches the eye from the first sister as it passes — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** He pretends to be a fairy and asks them to lend him the eye so that he can look at the road ahead of them — score 6 - **3.** He seizes the eye from the second sister as it is passed to her — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** He tricks the sisters into handing the eye over — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1457, line 5: «At last he flies to the river and finds the three Terrible Women asleep, with the youngest's eyes wide open.», 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 «boy» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1457-pg503-part44/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} State the direction in which the boy must travel in order to reach the Island of the Fairies of the Garden. - **1.** Due east — no support - **2.** North — no support - **3.** South, keeping the land upon his left hand and the sea upon his right — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **4.** West, keeping the sun upon his right hand and the hills behind him — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1413, line 12: «How he earns money: he sells baskets he makes of reeds, so that he and his father are able "to keep from starving."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+3); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 3, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1457-pg503-part44/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Identify the object which the fairies bestow upon the boy in order that he might pass unseen. - **1.** The Shoes of Swiftness, which carry the wearer fast — no support - **2.** The Cap of Darkness, which renders its wearer invisible to all eyes, both mortal and fairy, and to every creature — no support - **3.** The Cap of Darkness, a plain grey hat which the fairies lend, and which renders its wearer invisible to any watcher — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** The Cap of Darkness, which renders its wearer invisible — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1425, line 13: «What does the Fairy bring to the shore? Gifts carried by a hundred ladies, including "amber, coral, and pearls" and baskets of diamonds.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fairy» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1457-pg503-part44/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Describe the condition in which the youngest of the Terrible Women is found by the boy at the close of the passage. - **1.** She lies asleep upon her back, her eyes open and her face turned skyward — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **2.** She lies asleep upon her back in the middle of her sisters, her eyes open and her face turned skyward, shining in the moonlight by the river — score -1 - **3.** She lies asleep upon her back beside her sisters, her eyes open wide and her face turned skyward toward the roof of the cave — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** She lies asleep on her side, her eyes shut and her face turned away — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1078, line 7: «The youngest is "the very picture of her father, for courtesy and sweetness of temper," and she is very beautiful.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «youngest» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1457-pg503-part44/e4/) - ← previous: [1456. Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1456-pg503-part43/) - next →: [1458. Blue Fairy Book, Perseus: the Terrible Head turn…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1458-pg503-part45/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)