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title: The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 51 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 18 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness)

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**Tests:** 6 of 18 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 22 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 51 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. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/).

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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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Gwen from Cardiff: «Mole and Ratty remember every bit of the Piper for ever, it's lush.» (lush = lovely) Put it right.

- **1.** A breeze brought forgetting; only a dim sense of beauty stays, and the Rat keeps the hoof-marks in his mind — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The wind brought sleep, and the Rat remembers every word of it — no support
- **3.** A wind came and the Mole remembers the whole song clearly — no support
- **4.** A breeze brought forgetting; only a dim sense of beauty stays — **✓ 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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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«Kinda sus that Ratty says "some great animal". He knows!» (sus = suspicious) What is true?

- **1.** He has forgotten, but the hoof-marks stir his mind and he half-feels that something great was here — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He remembers everything, and he is hiding it — no support
- **3.** The hoof-marks are a clear trick by Mole — no support
- **4.** He has forgotten, but the hoof-marks stir his mind — **✓ 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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Why might forgetting be called a «gift» here?

- **1.** It helps them sleep — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** So the huge memory won't spoil their play and joy — no support
- **3.** Because it makes the animals forget their friends — score 2
- **4.** So the great awe won't overshadow their fun and happiness — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 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 51, line 9: «The book calls this «the last best gift that the kindly demi-god is careful to bestow»: «the gift of forgetfulness» (a demi-god is a half-god; bestow = give).», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «last best gift» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). 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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Which is TRUE about this part?

- **1.** Portly sleeps all day — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Portly cries when he cannot find the one who watched over him — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The Rat remembers the animal and hunts for it — no support
- **4.** Otter hears Portly crying and the Rat carries him home — 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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Siobhan from Cork: «grand, so the Rat carries Portly right up to Otter's front door.» (grand = fine) Put it right.

- **1.** They set him on the tow-path, and wait with him by the ford until Otter has seen him come up the bank — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** They lift him onto the bank and wave him goodbye — no support
- **3.** They set him on the tow-path and watch him waddle to Otter, but they never say goodbye to him at all — score 2
- **4.** They set him on the tow-path and watch him waddle to Otter — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 51, line 16: «Near the ford they set Portly on the tow-path (the path along a river bank); Otter starts up from «his lonely vigil» (a vigil = staying awake to watch) with «h…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «set» (+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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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«It's like music — far away music.» Who says this, and about what?

- **1.** The Mole, about the wind in the reeds and the far-off song of the birds — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **2.** The Otter, about the distant bells — no support
- **3.** The Rat, about the song in the willows — score 7
- **4.** The Mole, about the wind in the reeds — **✓ the right answer** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 50, line 5: ««Are you afraid?» whispers the Mole. «Of Him? O, never, never! And yet — and yet — O, Mole, I am afraid!» says the Rat, and they bow their heads in worship. In…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «mole» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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What might have happened if the animals had kept the whole memory?

- **1.** They might never sleep — score 4
- **2.** Their boat might sink in the stream — no support
- **3.** The huge memory might overshadow all their play and happiness — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** They would never leave the island and live in peace — **← Mova's choice** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 40, line 19: «The Mole sees «that he was an animal of tilled field and hedge-row» (tilled = ploughed for crops); he «must keep to the pleasant places … which held adventure…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mole» (+5); the same action «last» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Kev from Liverpool: «Ratty's sound, he tells Mole the whole last bit of the song.» (sound = good, kind) Put it right.

- **1.** He falls asleep before he can give the last part, and Mole is left wondering what the reeds said — score 4
- **2.** He falls asleep before he can give the last part — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** Mole tells the whole last part to the Rat — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** He falls asleep before he can give the last part, after telling Mole the first two verses slowly — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 47, line 4: «At lunch the poor Rat has to tell the Badger and the Mole. The Badger says some very sharp things; even the Mole says, «You've been a bit of a duffer this time…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+5); the same doer «mole» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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«Strays I find in it, wounds I bind in it.» How does this fit Portly?

- **1.** He was lost, and the Rat tied him to the boat — no support
- **2.** He was hurt and the Rat bound his wounds at once — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** He was a lost little stray, and the Helper kept him safe until his Otter father came to find him — no support
- **4.** He was a lost little stray, and the Helper kept him safe — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 51, line 20: «The song has three verses, each ending in forgetting; in the third the singer says «Helper and healer, I cheer — Small waifs in the woodland wet» (waifs = lost…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bind» (+4); the same thing acted on «wounds» (+1). 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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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«Bussin' ending: Mole hears every word of the song.» (bussin' = really good) Put it right.

- **1.** Only the Rat hears words, and he falls asleep before the last part — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Only the Rat hears words, and he falls asleep before the last part, and the Mole stays awake alone — no support
- **3.** Only the Mole hears words, and he sleeps before the last verse — no support
- **4.** Both hear every word, and the Rat sings the last part — 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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Looking back: in chapter II, who sat in the road murmuring «Poop-poop!» in a happy trance?

- **1.** Toad, in the road — score 8
- **2.** Toad, after the motor-car wrecked the caravan — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **3.** The Mole, in a hedge — score 8
- **4.** Badger, after a cart overturned by the ford — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 9, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 45, line 3: «The Badger tells the chauffeur he won't be wanted, and the friends bundle Toad inside. «Take those ridiculous things off!» «Shan't!» So the Rat sits on him and…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «badger» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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Looking back: in chapter V the Rat helped the Mole quietly, without fuss. Which act in this part shows the same quiet kindness?

- **1.** They let Portly go to Otter alone, and slip away — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** They wave flags and call Otter over loudly — no support
- **3.** They leave quietly — no support
- **4.** They shout loudly and rush to Otter's bank — 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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Looking back: the Mole cried on a tree-stump in chapter V. Who cries in this part?

- **1.** Little Portly, when he cannot find his Helper, and then the Rat when he sees the hoof-marks — no support
- **2.** Little Portly, when he cannot find his Helper, and also the Otter when at last he sees his son — score 5
- **3.** Little Portly, when he cannot find his Helper — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The Rat, when he remembers the great animal — **← Mova's choice** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 36, line 6: «The Mole tripped and cried «O my leg! ... O my poor shin!»; the Rat tied it up with his handkerchief.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «rat» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, 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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · right ✓ {#t14}

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Looking back: the book is called «The Wind in the Willows». Where in this part does the wind in the reeds turn into words?

- **1.** On the drift home — no support
- **2.** On the drift home, when the Rat hears a song in it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** On the way out, when the Piper blows his pipe — no support
- **4.** When the Mole hears the wind in the reeds — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 51, line 5: «Drifting home, both feel strangely tired; the Rat hears the wind in the reeds turn into words, a song about helping and then forgetting, and falls asleep smili…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hear» (+5); the same doer «rat» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★ · right ✓ {#t15}

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Looking back: which friend is far away, shut in a castle dungeon, all through chapter VII?

- **1.** Owl — no support
- **2.** Toad — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** Badger — no support
- **4.** The Water Rat, locked away — score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 40, line 4: «They hurry home across the snowy fields towards the river. Looking back at the dark Wild Wood, the Mole understands himself at last: he is an animal of fields…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «mole» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t15/)

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### Test 16 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t16}

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★★★ The reeds' song has three verses. How many of them end with the word «forget»?

- **1.** Just two — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** All three, though the last verse ends differently — no support
- **3.** All three — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Only one — 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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t16/)

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### Test 17 · ★ · right ✓ {#t17}

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★★★ Careful: «the kindly demi-god». What is a demi-god?

- **1.** A half-god, between gods and ordinary creatures — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A creature of half-animal, half-river spirit form — no support
- **3.** A minor demon — no support
- **4.** A god who is half-hidden in the reeds — 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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t17/)

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### Test 18 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t18}

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★★★ The Mole says «nothing particular has happened»; the Rat says «something very surprising and splendid and beautiful». Who is nearer the truth, and why can't they be sure?

- **1.** The Rat; they have been made to forget what they saw — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The Rat; they have been made to forget what they saw, and the Mole remembers only a faint dream — no support
- **3.** The Rat; they have been made to forget what they saw, so neither can recall the details now — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** The Mole; the Rat saw nothing at all here — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 44, line 4: «Everyone eats, the field-mice tell the Mole all the local gossip, and the Rat quietly makes sure everyone has plenty. The guests go home with pockets full of t…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same doer «rat» (+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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/t18/)

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

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Identify the gift which, according to the narrative, the demi-god bestows upon those to whom he has revealed himself.

- **1.** The gift of forgetfulness — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** The gift of remembrance — no support
- **3.** The gift of the great river — no support
- **4.** The gift of forgetfulness, which the demi-god bestows upon all who have seen him — **← Mova's choice** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 51, line 9: «The book calls this «the last best gift that the kindly demi-god is careful to bestow»: «the gift of forgetfulness» (a demi-god is a half-god; bestow = give).», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «bestow» (+5); the same doer «last best gift» (+3). The right option, 1, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/e1/)

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

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State the observation made by the Water Rat upon examining the ground of the island.

- **1.** That a large bird had landed there, as the tracks in the mud showed — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** That an otter had been there — no support
- **3.** That some great animal had been there, as hoof-marks in the sward attested — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** That a Badger came by — 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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Select the response which accurately characterises the manner of the young otter's restoration to his parent.

- **1.** He was set upon the tow-path near the ford, whence he proceeded alone — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He was left by the reeds, then hurried off alone toward the bridge — no support
- **3.** He was taken by the boat to the island and left there — no support
- **4.** He was carried home by Otter — 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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/e3/)

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

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Which of the following statements is consistent with the established facts concerning the conclusion of the chapter?

- **1.** The Water Rat fell asleep before communicating the final portion of the song, and the Mole never heard it at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Water Rat fell asleep before communicating the final portion of the song, which the Otter later recited to the Mole and Portly on the bank — no support
- **3.** The Water Rat fell asleep before communicating the final portion of the song — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The Mole fell asleep before he could hear the final portion of the song — 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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/e4/)

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