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title: Greek Myths, Zeus and His Loves, part 7: Zeus wins many mortal women… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 501 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 12 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Greek Myths, Zeus and His Loves, part 7: Zeus wins many mortal women in disguise, and Lycaon plots to test him

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**Tests:** 3 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 6 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 501 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.

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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/books/501-pg22381-part7/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Dude, did Zeus really turn into a swan just to get with Leda?

- **1.** Nope, he sent an eagle — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yep, he did, innit — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Nah, he sent an eagle — no support
- **4.** Nah, no — 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/books/501-pg22381-part7/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Bruv, how did Amphion make the walls of Thebes go up so fast?

- **1.** Zeus sent builders down from the sky to help him, proper — no support
- **2.** He sang to the stones, bruv — no support
- **3.** He played his lyre, proper sweet — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** He called the gods down to help him out — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 501, line 1: «Amphion builds the walls of Thebes by playing his lyre, and the stones move into place by themselves.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «lyre» (+3); the same action «play» (+2); the same doer «amphion» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/501-pg22381-part7/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Wait, so Hera turned Callisto into a bear? That's well mental, mate!

- **1.** Yeah, and Artemis hunted her — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** Nah, she's fine — no support
- **3.** Yeah, and Hermes saved her, bruv — no support
- **4.** Yeah, then Zeus hid her in stars — **← Mova's choice** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 501, line 3: «Zeus turns into a white bull, carries Europa over the sea to Crete, and changes Callisto into a bear, which Artemis then hunts.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «callisto» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 1, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/501-pg22381-part7/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Lol, Zeus turned himself into a bull to snog Europa?

- **1.** Yeah, and he carried her over the sea — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 11
- **2.** Yeah, and he swam all the way to Crete with her on his back — score -1
- **3.** Yeah, and he took her to a new island — score 7
- **4.** Yeah, and he brought her to Crete, where they had three sons together — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 11, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 501, line 3: «Zeus turns into a white bull, carries Europa over the sea to Crete, and changes Callisto into a bear, which Artemis then hunts.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «europa» (+4); the same place «sea» (+4); the same action «carry» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/501-pg22381-part7/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Mate, how come Argus had a hundred eyes, that's bare weird?

- **1.** Cos he was nosy — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Hera used them to guard Io — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Just cos, bruv — no support
- **4.** Argus was a giant, he saw all — 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/books/501-pg22381-part7/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Dude, what's a shower of gold, is that like gold rain?

- **1.** Nah, just rain — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, gold, mate — no support
- **3.** Yeah, he got in through a tower roof — no support
- **4.** Yeah, that's how Zeus got to Danae — **✓ 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/books/501-pg22381-part7/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Did Pollux really turn down being immortal, like, for real?

- **1.** Yeah, he'd only do it if Castor joined — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nah, he just said no — no support
- **3.** Yeah, proper, he did — no support
- **4.** Yeah, he'd only take it if Castor came too — **✓ 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/books/501-pg22381-part7/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Innit, so Semele got fried cos Zeus showed off too much?

- **1.** Yeah, she asked for it, proper — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** Yeah, Zeus was just being a show-off — no support
- **3.** Yeah, she got fried — no support
- **4.** Yeah, she wanted to see him, innit — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 62, line 4: «Toad pretends the horse is a prize animal he could never sell — then asks how much. «Shillin' a leg,» says the man: four shillings. He raises it to five. Toad…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/501-pg22381-part7/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Wicked, Philemon and Baucis got turned into trees, right?

- **1.** Yeah, trees — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, they were turned to oaks — no support
- **3.** Nah, they're fine — no support
- **4.** Yeah, side by side, forever — **✓ 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/books/501-pg22381-part7/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Bro, why did Lycaon give Zeus a dish of human meat?

- **1.** To trick Zeus into eating human flesh so the gods would be punished — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** To test if Zeus was really a god — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** To see if Zeus could tell human flesh from animal meat, as a cruel trick — no support
- **4.** To see if he would notice the meat — 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, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 501, line 18: «HOW: Lycaon tests Zeus by killing a boy and serving his flesh, and this shows the wickedness that Zeus came to see.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «zeus» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/501-pg22381-part7/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Ha, so Io turned into a cow and then ran off to Egypt?

- **1.** Yeah, she had a gadfly chasing her — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, she was a cow — no support
- **3.** Yeah, a gadfly kept stinging her — no support
- **4.** Nah, Hera chased her — **← Mova's choice** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 501, line 4: «Semele asks to see Zeus in all his glory and is burned up, and Hera changes Io into a cow, and Argus guards her until Hermes puts him to sleep.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «io» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+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/501-pg22381-part7/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Mental, so the Dioscuri got worshipped in Sparta, yeah?

- **1.** Yeah, they had huge festivals and were honoured with statues and feasts — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, they did — no support
- **3.** Yeah, with a lot of honour — no support
- **4.** Yeah, with loads of respect — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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/501-pg22381-part7/t12/)

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

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Which deity is said to have bestowed upon Amphion the lyre by means of which he raised the walls of Thebes?

- **1.** Hephaestus, god of the forge — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Ares — no support
- **3.** Hermes — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Eros — 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/books/501-pg22381-part7/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Which of the following was the means by which Zeus conveyed the princess Europa across the sea to the island of Crete?

- **1.** a white bull — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a great shining bull from the sea — no support
- **3.** a grey heifer — no support
- **4.** a snow-white bull sent from heaven — 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/books/501-pg22381-part7/e2/)

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

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By what solemn oath was Zeus bound to fulfil the request made by Semele, the daughter of Cadmus?

- **1.** the sacred river Acheron — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the Styx — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Hades — no support
- **4.** Acheron — 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/books/501-pg22381-part7/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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What punishment did the gods inflict upon Philemon and Baucis after their death in recognition of their devotion?

- **1.** transformation into trees — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** turned into two oak trees — no support
- **3.** turned into oaks and stones — no support
- **4.** transformation into two trees that stood by the temple for ages — 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/books/501-pg22381-part7/e4/)

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