--- title: Myths of Greece and Rome, Dionysus, part 26: the wine-god's youth, t… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 520 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 13 tests right, exam 0 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/520-pg22381-part26/) [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/) / 520 # Myths of Greece and Rome, Dionysus, part 26: the wine-god's youth, travels and the golden king Midas **Tests:** 3 of 13 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 520 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/520-pg22381-part26/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Mate, who was the old satyr who looked after baby Dionysus? - **1.** Pan — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Hermes — no support - **3.** Pan, the goat-footed piper — no support - **4.** Silenus, proper wise old mate — **✓ 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/520-pg22381-part26/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Bruh, what made Pentheus so proper angry with the wine lot? - **1.** Their shameful secret rituals — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 - **2.** Their wild Bacchanalian parties that drove women from their homes into the hills — no support - **3.** Their noisy drinking songs — no support - **4.** Their wild Bacchanalian parties — **✓ the right answer** · score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score -1, tied with another option at -1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 75, line 9: «The Man said the Three "must work double-time to make up for it", which made them "very angry (with the world so new-and-all)".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/520-pg22381-part26/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} Innit, why did Dionysus go into the sea when Lycurgus got in his face? - **1.** He got scared and chucked himself in — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **2.** He got scared when Lycurgus waved an axe and he leapt into the sea with the nymphs — score 6 - **3.** Lycurgus had threatened him and he dived in to hide from the king's men — no support - **4.** He wanted to escape by swimming — score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 520, line 3: «He decides to share wine with the whole world, so he marches east with a huge crowd, planting vines as he goes.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «dionysus» (+6); 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/520-pg22381-part26/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} Was Pentheus gutted or chuffed when he got himself torn to bits by his own mum? - **1.** Well gutted, mate, that's proper grim — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Chuffed, he was dead proud of it — no support - **3.** Proper chuffed, he was over the moon — no support - **4.** Chuffed, mate — 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/520-pg22381-part26/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Lowkey, where did the pirates reckon they'd nick Dionysus to sell? - **1.** Crete, as a servant — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Sell him — no support - **3.** Asia, as a slave — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Egypt, for a big ransom — 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/520-pg22381-part26/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Wait, what did the ship start looking like when Dionysus took over? - **1.** Dripping with wine and draped in ivy while the sailors cowered below deck — no support - **2.** Covered in vines and ivy, with wine flowing from every mast and sail — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Covered in vines and ivy, all wet with wine — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** Hung with grapes and fresh flowers — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 520, line 5: «Pirates try to sell Dionysus as a slave, their ship sprouts vines, and at last King Midas wishes that everything he touches turns to gold.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ship» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/520-pg22381-part26/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Bro, what happened to the lads who jumped off the ship in a panic? - **1.** They turned into dolphins, mad — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** They turned into sea birds, mad — no support - **3.** They became fish and swam off — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** They drowned — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 236, line 19: «Old words: "bonny" means pretty, and "bogles" means goblins or ghosts, which is why the lads in the next tale fear them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «words» (+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/520-pg22381-part26/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Ngl, who was the one who got to live when the captain got smashed? - **1.** The pilot who warned the captain and was then saved by the god himself from the sea — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** The helmsman, the man who prayed — no support - **3.** The sailor, the lad with the kind heart — no support - **4.** The steersman, the pilot with the good heart — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 468, line 19: «Old word "Sotniks" meant Cossack captains of a hundred men, and "Desyatniks" leaders of ten men.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «cossack captains» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+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/520-pg22381-part26/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Yo, who was the babe Dionysus found asleep on Naxos? - **1.** Ariadne, the Cretan princess whom Theseus abandoned on the island — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Ariadne, the queen Minos sent away — no support - **3.** Phaedra, the princess Theseus wed — no support - **4.** Ariadne, the princess Theseus ditched — **✓ 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/520-pg22381-part26/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Fam, what did Midas wish for that turned out a proper disaster? - **1.** That his daughter be given gold — score -3 - **2.** That all he touched became silver — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **3.** That everything he touched became gold — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **4.** That his palace and all its gardens would be turned into gold by the god's favour forever — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 520, line 18: «At last Midas had to bathe in the river Pactolus so that he would lose his golden touch.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «touch» (+2). Against it: the same doer «midas» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/520-pg22381-part26/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Real talk, what did the bread and bed turn into for poor Midas? - **1.** Solid gold, which he could not eat, and he nearly starved in his golden palace — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Solid gold, and it was a nightmare — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Stone, and it was a curse — no support - **4.** Silver, and it was a disaster — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 520, line 17: «Midas, the king of Phrygia, asked that "everything he touched might turn to gold", and so his food and his bed became gold.», 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 «midas» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+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/520-pg22381-part26/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12} Sis, where did Midas have to go to get rid of the golden curse? - **1.** The sacred river Pactolus, far away from his palace in the hills of Phrygia — no support - **2.** The river Pactolus, in Lydia — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** The fountain at Sardis, in Asia — no support - **4.** The sea — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 520, line 18: «At last Midas had to bathe in the river Pactolus so that he would lose his golden touch.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same place «river pactolus» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/520-pg22381-part26/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} Lol, why was Silenus wandering around Midas's roses in the first place? - **1.** He was steamed and lost his way — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** He was chasing a stray goat — no support - **3.** He had wandered off drunk — no support - **4.** He had been sent by Dionysus to find the roses and got lost in the maze — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 289, line 3: «explain: Gerda finds one missing rose on the old woman's hat, and her tears bring a rose-bush back up.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+2); the same thing acted on «one missing rose» (+1). Against it: a different doer (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/520-pg22381-part26/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which character acted as guardian and preceptor to the young god Dionysus during his childhood? - **1.** Pan, an aged satyr and son of Hermes — no support - **2.** Silenus, an old satyr and friend — no support - **3.** Hermes, a messenger god and son of Zeus who carried the infant from the fire to the nymphs — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** Silenus, an aged satyr and son of Pan — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 304, line 15: «Old word: "circumspect" means careful and slow to act, and the shadow says "I was circumspect, I took time to think."», 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 «old word» (+2); 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/520-pg22381-part26/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} In which geographical region did Dionysus conduct his triumphal progress, establishing cities and civilized customs? - **1.** Phrygia, Lydia and Persia — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Asia Minor, Phoenicia and Cyprus — no support - **3.** Syria, Egypt, Arabia and India — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Crete and Thrace — 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/520-pg22381-part26/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} What was the consequence of the king's sacrilegious conduct toward the god according to the passage? - **1.** Pentheus was driven mad by the god — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** The city of Thebes was struck by plague and famine — no support - **3.** His mother and aunts were punished by the god with exile — score 0 - **4.** Pentheus was torn apart by his mother and her sisters — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 356, line 13: «Why: the king cries, "Man, man! you will drive me mad," because the story never ends.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4); the same action «drive» (+3). Against it: a different doer (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/520-pg22381-part26/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What was the outcome of the request made by the king of Phrygia to the god Dionysus? - **1.** Everything he touched was changed into gold — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The king was granted a golden palace, but his wife and children were turned to gold statues by the god — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** Everything he ate was turned to stone — score 3 - **4.** Everything he touched was changed into gold, including his food and his own daughter — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 202, line 2: «Badoura hears his fear, and next morning she asks the king for leave to visit King Schahzaman, which he grants for one year.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «king» (+4); the same action «grant» (+3). 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/520-pg22381-part26/e4/) - ← previous: [518. Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/518-pg22381-part24/) - next →: [521. Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and the gods of…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/521-pg22381-part27/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)