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title: Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a deer replaces the girl on the altar — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 514 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 14 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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# Greek myths, Iphigenia, part 20: a deer replaces the girl on the altar

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**Tests:** 2 of 14 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 4 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 514 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/514-pg22381-part20/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Oi mate, who got the deer swap on the altar, innit?

- **1.** Artemis — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Hermes, the winged messenger god who carried her off, innit — no support
- **3.** Zeus, the king of the gods who sent the cloud, innit — no support
- **4.** Hermes — 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/514-pg22381-part20/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Bruv, what's the proper name of the girl sent to Aulis?

- **1.** Penelope, the wife of Odysseus who wove and unwove her loom — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Iphigenia — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Briseis — no support
- **4.** Chryseis — 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/514-pg22381-part20/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Mate, was Pylades her boyfriend or her cousin?

- **1.** Her cousin — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Her brother — no support
- **3.** Her husband — no support
- **4.** Her cousin, but also her secret lover waiting in Argos — 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/514-pg22381-part20/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Wait, where did the cloud drop her, proper?

- **1.** A distant island far in the north beyond the Black Sea — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Back to Aulis on the shore where her father waited — no support
- **3.** Taurica — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** Thrace — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 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 472, line 1: «The Princess pretends to fetch a light and splashes boiling liquid on the witch, who drops dead.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «drop» (+5); the same thing acted on «witch» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/514-pg22381-part20/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Is Brauron in Attica or Sparta, bruv?

- **1.** Corinth — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Attica — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Argos — no support
- **4.** Sparta, down by the Eurotas river valley — 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/514-pg22381-part20/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Who's the bloke who made the whipping thing in Sparta, like?

- **1.** Pausanias — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Pheidon, the Argive king who first minted coins and weights — no support
- **3.** Solon — no support
- **4.** Lycurgus — **✓ 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/514-pg22381-part20/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Mum, how did the mothers feel when their boys died, though?

- **1.** Sad — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Proud, rejoicing — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Relieved, calm — no support
- **4.** Angry — 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/514-pg22381-part20/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Which god was the limping one, like?

- **1.** Hermes, the winged messenger who stole the cattle as a baby — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Cronus, the titan father who swallowed his children and was later overthrown — no support
- **3.** Prometheus — no support
- **4.** Hephaestus — **✓ 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/514-pg22381-part20/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Who was the lame bloke's dad, innit?

- **1.** Pan — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Hades — no support
- **3.** Uranus, the grandfather of the gods who was hurled from heaven — no support
- **4.** Zeus — **✓ 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/514-pg22381-part20/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Who was the wine god who tricked Hephaestus, proper?

- **1.** Apollo — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Pan — no support
- **3.** Eros — no support
- **4.** Dionysus — **✓ 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/514-pg22381-part20/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Which hill had Servius Tullius's temple, mate?

- **1.** Rome — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Forum — no support
- **3.** Capitoline, the hill of Jupiter's great temple — no support
- **4.** Aventine — **✓ 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/514-pg22381-part20/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Where did Hephaestus land, like?

- **1.** The Aegean isle of Cythera off the Laconian coast — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Lemnos — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Samos — no support
- **4.** Naxos — 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/514-pg22381-part20/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Bruv, what did the priest at the lake have to do to get the job?

- **1.** Serve the temple for ten years and then pass a test set by the goddess — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** Defeat a rival king — no support
- **3.** Murder his predecessor — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Kill the old priest — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 483, line 10: «WHO COMES: an old man, whom the text calls "the sacred visitor", who asks to spend the night.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+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/514-pg22381-part20/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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Who's the Roman name for Artemis, innit?

- **1.** Minerva, the goddess of wisdom and crafts — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Juno — no support
- **3.** Diana — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Proserpina, the queen of the dead in the lower world — 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/514-pg22381-part20/t14/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Which reason did Agamemnon give Clytemnaestra for summoning Iphigenia to Aulis?

- **1.** A festival — no support
- **2.** The lie that Menelaus had summoned her — no support
- **3.** The pretext that Achilles desired to marry her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **4.** The claim that Odysseus had demanded her — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 514, line 1: «Agamemnon finally gives in to the army and tricks his wife into sending Iphigenia to Aulis, saying Achilles wants to marry her.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «marry» (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «achilles» (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/514-pg22381-part20/e1/)

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

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What form did the sacrifice take in Sparta after Lycurgus intervened?

- **1.** The burning of goats at the altar — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The offering of grain at the altar — no support
- **3.** The scourging of youths at the altar — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A ritual in which the youths were carried in procession to the sea and drowned — 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/514-pg22381-part20/e2/)

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

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By what means did the siblings establish their identity to one another?

- **1.** A letter, then a long argument — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Tears — no support
- **3.** Recognition, followed by joyful tears and embraces — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A scar, then bitter argument and blows — 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/514-pg22381-part20/e3/)

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

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What name did the statue of Artemis bear once it was carried to Brauron?

- **1.** The Brauronian Artemis — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The image of the goddess wrapped in sticks of myrtle that the priest of the temple had carried across the sea from Taurica to Brauron — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** The Taurian Artemis — no support
- **4.** The statue of Artemis that had fallen from heaven and was wrapped in sacred cloth at the shrine — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 513, line 19: «Old word: a "brand" was a burning stick of wood, and today we would say a log or a firebrand.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «burning stick» (-1). 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/514-pg22381-part20/e4/)

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