--- title: The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (th… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 52 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 17 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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/) [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/) / 52 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast) **Tests:** 4 of 17 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 21 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 52 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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/). 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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} «Toad's just chillin' in prison, eating loads from day one.» Put it right. - **1.** For weeks he refused every single meal and wept all the day long in the cell — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** He stayed cheerful and ate every meal — no support - **3.** For weeks he refused his meals and wept — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** He ate all his food and was happy — 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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Sophie, a bit mardy (sulky): «the gaoler's daughter was proper mean to Toad.» Put it right. - **1.** She was kind: she pitied him and brought him good food — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** She was cruel — no support - **3.** She was cross and gave him cold scraps and no pity at all — score 3 - **4.** She was unkind and shut him up without any care for 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 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 41, line 3: «Out on the dark road again, the Rat walks ahead. Suddenly a smell reaches the Mole like an electric shock: it is HOME — his own old home, the one he ran out of…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «mole» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} «That toast looks peng.» (peng = tasty) What does the toast do for Toad? - **1.** He refuses the food and goes back to weeping — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** He sits up, eats, and talks happily about himself — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** He gets up, cries, and begs for his car back — no support - **4.** He sits up, eats everything quickly, then talks happily about himself, his house and his importance — 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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Which is TRUE about this part? - **1.** Toad is in a cell — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Toad describes Toad Hall as if he were selling it — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Toad hates his house — no support - **4.** Toad says he never liked his house at all — 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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Why does the girl say «Bless the animal ... I don't want to take it»? - **1.** She is angry — no support - **2.** She wants more food — no support - **3.** She thinks Toad is talking rubbish about the castle here — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** Toad talks like a house-seller, though nobody is buying — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 3, line 5: «She fears she has become Mabel, a girl she thinks knows very little, and ends up crying because she is so tired of being all alone: funny, but lonely and sad u…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+2); the same doer «alice» (+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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} What does the cabbage smell show about Toad? - **1.** His moods swing fast: one good smell, and he's hopeful again — **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **2.** His moods swing fast: a single good smell lifts him, and he becomes hopeful, proud and boastful again at once — **← Mova's choice** · score 9 - **3.** He is very vain and boastful about his money — score 8 - **4.** He is a clever creature who always knows exactly what he wants, and food is his only weakness — score 9 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 52, line 2: «The gaoler's kind daughter, who loves animals, asks to look after him. She brings him bubble-and-squeak, and the smell of hot cabbage makes him dream of meadow…», 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 «kind daughter» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Ailsa from Edinburgh: «prison's dreich and Toad stays miserable the whole chapter.» (dreich = dreary) Put it right. - **1.** By the end of the chapter he is cheerful, proud of his house and talking about himself to the girl at great length — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** By that very night he is cheerful and pleased with himself again — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Within a few hours of the toast he is cheerful, boastful, and very pleased with his own cleverness again — no support - **4.** Next morning he is still miserable and refuses all food again — 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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Grandpa from Ohio: «Don't have a cow, Toad's a gentleman, so he IS better than a jailer's girl.» (don't have a cow = calm down) What is right? - **1.** Gentlemen are always better than jailers' daughters, as everyone knows — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** That's an old snobbish idea: being richer doesn't make anyone better — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** That is a snobbish old idea, but being richer or higher in rank does not make someone better in character or kindness — no support - **4.** Being a gentleman means having lots of money and property — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 38, line 16: ««Billy he got frightened and took and cried, being young and faint-hearted» (faint-hearted = easily scared). He adds: «Mr. Badger he's a kind-hearted gentleman…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «know» (+3); the same doer «everyone» (+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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Why does the girl let Toad talk so much about himself? - **1.** She knows his talk comforts him, and she encourages it as part of the care that cures his despair — score 3 - **2.** She sees it does him as much good as the tea — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** He talks because the girl has ordered him to talk about himself for her amusement every single day — score 3 - **4.** She wants him to tell her his secrets — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 52, line 5: «By bedtime he is his old cheerful, self-satisfied self, sings a little song and sleeps well; as the days pass the girl feels sorry for him, and vain Toad think…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «toad» (+4); the same doer «girl» (+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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} «Girl, you ate!» (ate = did brilliantly) Who «ate» in this part, and why? - **1.** Toad, who gobbled the cabbage and the toast in his cell — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The gaoler's daughter, who cured Toad's despair with hot food, buttered toast and an interested, kindly ear — no support - **3.** Toad, who at last ate the bubble-and-squeak and the toast, and then felt much happier and boasted about it to the girl — no support - **4.** The girl, who cured Toad's despair with food and kind talk — **✓ 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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} Looking back: who said in chapter VI that talking would never cure Toad, because «He'll say anything»? - **1.** The Water Rat, when he sat talking in the river-bank parlour — score 8 - **2.** Badger, the wise and sensible old friend — score 8 - **3.** Badger — score 8 - **4.** The Rat — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 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 46, line 2: «But the Rat thinks he sees a twinkle in Toad's sorrowful eye. The Badger asks Toad to repeat his promise in front of his friends. A long, long pause… then: «No…», 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). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Looking back: which earlier scene also shows Toad's moods swinging fast? - **1.** The motor-car crash — no support - **2.** Toad sobbing on the river bank, then boasting of his cleverness — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **3.** Toad singing loudly in the wood while the policemen came — score 8 - **4.** Sobbing in Badger's smoking-room, then saying «I'm not sorry» — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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 36, line 5: «The Mole falls over backwards in delight and praises the Rat's clever step-by-step thinking at great length. «But as you haven't» got my brains, snaps the Rat,…», 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, 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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} Looking back: who said at the end of chapter VI that Toad might be brought back «between two policemen»? - **1.** Otter — no support - **2.** Ratty — no support - **3.** Badger — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **4.** Toad himself, speaking sadly to the Mole in the dark cellar — score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 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: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «badger» (+3); the same action «say» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} Looking back: Toad's yellow caravan in chapter II also had lockers full of food. Which was in them? - **1.** Tinned peaches, cold pie and bread rolls — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Cakes, cider, potted lobster, sardines, biscuits and a large cheese, all carefully packed away — no support - **3.** Biscuits, potted lobster and sardines — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Biscuits, potted lobster, sardines, tinned fruit, a cold ham and a crock of mustard — 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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t14/) ### Test 15 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t15} Looking back: in chapter II the Rat said Toad was «both boastful and conceited». Which line here shows that best? - **1.** «an eligible self-contained gentleman's residence very unique» — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** «I am the cleverest toad in all England, and my residence is the most elegant of any gentleman's home around» — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **3.** «an eligible self-contained gentleman's residence, the finest and most unique property of its kind in the whole county» — no support - **4.** «Toad Hall, my beautiful property, and my famous motor-car» — score 8 **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 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: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «rat» (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t15/) ### Test 16 · ★ · right ✓ {#t16} ★★★ Toad's sentence was twenty years, and he has been in prison «several weeks». How much of it is left? - **1.** Nearly all of it: almost twenty years — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Half of it — no support - **3.** None: he is free — no support - **4.** About ten years and a month — 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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t16/) ### Test 17 · ★ · right ✓ {#t17} ★★★ Careful: who says «You let me have the managing of him», and to whom? - **1.** The gaoler, to the magistrate — score 7 - **2.** The daughter, to her father — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** The gaoler, to his daughter in the hall — score 8 - **4.** The gaoler, to his daughter, after she had offered to look after the prisoner — score 8 **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 52, line 14: «She says: «I'll make him eat from my hand, and sit up, and do all sorts of things»: she thinks of him rather like a pet, but wisely never tells him so.», 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 «father» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/t17/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the condition in which the prisoner passed the initial weeks of his confinement. - **1.** Calmly reading books and writing letters — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Cheerful and well fed — no support - **3.** In cheerful spirits, eating heartily each day — no support - **4.** In lamentation and despair, declining his meals — **✓ 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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Ascertain the agency by which the prisoner's despondency was first alleviated. - **1.** The odour of hot cabbage, borne in a dish of bubble-and-squeak — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** A visit from Badger, who brought him a letter of comfort — no support - **3.** The strong smell of the hot cabbage that the gaoler's daughter brought him on a dish of bubble-and-squeak — no support - **4.** The arrival of the warm bread, cheese and cider from home — 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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Select the response which most accurately characterises the prisoner's first account of his residence. - **1.** A tearful speech of sorrow, mourning the loss of his beloved home and friends — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** A rude complaint — no support - **3.** An account in the manner of an advertisement for the sale of property — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** A lengthy list of the wealthy cabinets and carriages of the castle — 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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Which of the following statements is consistent with the established facts concerning the prisoner's opinion of the gaoler's daughter? - **1.** He wrongly supposed that her kindness proceeded from admiration for himself — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** He correctly believed she was simply sorry for his thinness and misery — no support - **3.** He was sure she disliked him and only pitied the cabbage — no support - **4.** He rightly saw her as kind — 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/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/e4/) - ← previous: [51. 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