--- title: Myths of Greece and Rome, Thetis and Ares, part 23: Thetis weds Pele… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 517 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 14 tests right, exam 2 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/517-pg22381-part23/) [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/) / 517 # Myths of Greece and Rome, Thetis and Ares, part 23: Thetis weds Peleus, then the war-god Ares is hated by his father **Tests:** 2 of 14 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 517 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/517-pg22381-part23/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} yo did u read the bit where thetis turns into like a million shapes just to dodge peleus? - **1.** yeah, she just swam off, lowkey — no support - **2.** nah she tried the whole thing again and he still held on, it was mad, she was knackered — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** nah she turned herself into a rock and he gave up on her in the end — score 6 - **4.** fr, and he just grabbed her till she gave up, legit — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 517, line 9: «How does Thetis try to escape Peleus? She uses her power to change into many different shapes, but he knows that "persistence would eventually succeed" and hol…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «thetis» (+4); the same action «try» (+3). 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/517-pg22381-part23/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} so wait zeus and poseidon both wanted her but nobody got her? - **1.** yeah cos some oracle said her kid would be stronger than his dad and that was the whole problem — no support - **2.** nah cos she was a sea nymph and they both just got bored of it all in the end — no support - **3.** yeah cos the kid was gonna be stronger than his dad — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yeah cos the son would beat his old man — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 517, line 18: «Who is Ares? He is the son of Zeus and Hera, and he "gloried in strife for its own sake".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «son» (+4). 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/517-pg22381-part23/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} bro who even forgot to invite eris to the wedding lmao - **1.** nobody, she came anyway — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** everyone did, and she was well salty about it — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** the bride's family, she was gutted — no support - **4.** Hera, and she was well mad — 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/517-pg22381-part23/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} the kingfisher thing is peak sad innit, they just fly in pairs forever - **1.** yeah innit, Halcyone waited ages on the shore for him to come home — no support - **2.** proper, halcyone was gutted when her man drowned — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** proper, cos Ceyx drowned in a storm and she threw herself in after him — no support - **4.** true, they both got turned into birds — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 517, line 11: «What happens to Halcyone and Ceyx? After their ship is wrecked, Thetis turns the couple into kingfishers, birds that "always fly in pairs".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn» (+5); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). 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/517-pg22381-part23/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} so halcyon days means chill days by the sea? - **1.** nah, it means something about the sun — no support - **2.** nah, it's about sunshine — no support - **3.** yeah like calm weather for the nests, super mint — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yeah like calm seas for the birds, dead nice — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 517, line 4: «Next the story tells how Thetis turned the sad Halcyone and Ceyx into kingfishers, and of the calm "halcyon-days" that follow.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4). 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/517-pg22381-part23/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} the amber tears bit is actually well cool, is it real? - **1.** nah, it's made up, but amber comes from trees — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** nah it's myth, but amber's a proper gem so it fits — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** yeah it's real, mate — no support - **4.** yeah, old sailors swore by it, innit — 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/517-pg22381-part23/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} who was Ino before she was a sea goddess? - **1.** a Titan, Cronus's daughter, quite famous — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** a goddess already — no support - **3.** a mortal, Cadmus's daughter, a bit of a legend — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** a nymph of Thebes, Agenor's daughter, kind of famous — 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/517-pg22381-part23/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} do sirens look like mermaids then? - **1.** yeah, top half fish, bottom half girl with fins — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, top half girl, bottom half fish with fins and scales, and they swim fast — no support - **3.** nah, top half girl, bottom half a seabird with wings and claws and feathers all over — no support - **4.** nah, top half girl, bottom half a seabird with wings — **✓ the right answer** · 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/517-pg22381-part23/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} ares sounds like a right wrong'un, his own dad hates him - **1.** yeah, Zeus said he hated him more than any of the other gods and wished he'd never been born at all, honestly — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** nah, Zeus was proud of him really, he just didn't show it much to Hera or anyone at all — no support - **3.** yeah, zeus basically told him he'd be down the pit if he wasn't his son — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yeah, Hera hated him and Zeus called him a pest, bit of a nightmare — 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/517-pg22381-part23/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} why does ares get a court on a hill? - **1.** cos he attacked a Trojan hero and got sent to a hill-top court, and it's named after that — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** cos he got let off for killing that bloke, so the hill's named after him — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** cos he got let off for killing that bloke, so the hill's named after him and the court's named after Zeus — no support - **4.** cos the gods wanted him gone, so he got a trial — 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/517-pg22381-part23/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} who beat up ares in the big battle? - **1.** Odysseus, with Hera's help — no support - **2.** Ajax, with Zeus's help — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Diomedes, with Athene's help — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** a whole Greek army, led by Achilles and Odysseus, at the walls of Troy — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 517, line 19: «Why does Zeus scorn Ares? Ares is wounded by Diomedes, complains, and Zeus tells him he is "most hateful" to him because he delights only in war and strife.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «zeus» (+2); a different action (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/517-pg22381-part23/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12} what's Eris got in her hands? - **1.** a dagger and a hissing adder, and a burning torch — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** a dagger, a hissing adder, a torch, and a broken shield — no support - **3.** a sword, a hissing adder and two flaming torches in her hands — no support - **4.** a whip and a flaming brand, and a bow — 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/517-pg22381-part23/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} mars is just ares but for the romans right? - **1.** yeah, and they reckoned he was dad to Romulus and Remus — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** nah, Mars was the sea god of Rome — no support - **3.** yeah, they swapped the name but kept the wars — no support - **4.** nah, totally different — 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/517-pg22381-part23/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} so the salii were basically dancing priests in armour? - **1.** yeah, twelve of them, boss sacred dances in full kit — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** nah, they were priests who wore togas — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** yeah, six of them, sang hymns in old robes — no support - **4.** yeah, bit of a laugh — no support **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 486, line 15: «What is an old word here? "Pope" means an ordinary Orthodox parish priest, not the Pope of Rome.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «ordinary orthodox parish priest» (+4). 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/517-pg22381-part23/t14/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following describes the marriage of Thetis and Peleus, and the role of Eris therein? - **1.** All the gods and goddesses were present at the wedding, and Eris alone was seated apart by Zeus, as she was the cause of the war at Troy later — no support - **2.** Thetis fled the wedding and Eris took her place at the feast — no support - **3.** All the gods came to the marriage, but Eris was left out, which led to the golden apple dispute at the feast of Peleus and Thetis — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** The marriage was attended by all the gods except Eris, who was deliberately excluded — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 512, line 22: «Old word: "celibacy" means living without marriage, the kind of life Artemis chose and the maiden Atalanta also kept.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+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/517-pg22381-part23/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Which of the following accurately states the origin of the name Areopagus? - **1.** It is derived from the hill of Ares, where he was acquitted of the slaying of Halirrhothios — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It is named after the temple of Athene on the hill — no support - **3.** It comes from a shrine to Athene, where the goddess judged Ares guilty — no support - **4.** It is derived from the Greek word for plain, referring to the flat ground where the court of the gods later sat in judgement over Ares — 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/517-pg22381-part23/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Which of the following correctly identifies the parentage of the Gorgons, the Graeae, and the dragon of the Hesperides? - **1.** Phorcys and Ceto — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Pontus and Gaia — no support - **3.** Gaia and Uranus, parents of the Titans, the Graeae and the Gorgons, and of the Hesperides' dragon too — no support - **4.** Phorcys and Ceto, parents of the Gorgons, Graeae and dragon of the Hesperides, and of the Sirens too — 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/517-pg22381-part23/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which of the following correctly describes the attributes of the Roman god Mars as stated in the passage? - **1.** He was regarded as god of the harvest and of fire, and as son of Jupiter — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** He was regarded as god of spring, of agriculture, and of war, and as father of Romulus and Remus, and as protector of Rome's armies on the battlefield — score 5 - **3.** He was regarded as god of spring, of agriculture, and of war, and as father of Romulus and Remus — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** He was regarded as god of spring, of the sea, of the hunt, and of war, and as father of Aeneas, Rome's founder and hero — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 154, line 17: «Why the gods sent the dream: they wanted to see how the man would keep his vow, and he was sold as a slave for a hundred crowns.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+4); the same circumstance (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). 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/517-pg22381-part23/e4/) - ← previous: [515. Greek Myths, Hephaestus and Poseidon, part 21: A…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/515-pg22381-part21/) - next →: [518. Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/518-pg22381-part24/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)