--- title: Classical Myths, The Realm of the Dead, part 28: the guilty are judg… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 522 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 13 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/522-pg22381-part28/) [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/) / 522 # Classical Myths, The Realm of the Dead, part 28: the guilty are judged and punished in Tartarus **Tests:** 6 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 522 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/522-pg22381-part28/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} yo so Tantalus is dying of thirst but the water dips away when he goes to sip? - **1.** Yeah, it flows right into his mouth — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, but Zeus sends a bird to refill the cup every time he tries — no support - **3.** Yeah, it ducks off his lips every time — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yeah, and the fruit above him keeps flying off the branch too, right? — 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/522-pg22381-part28/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} bruh who's the dude with the rock that always rolls back down? - **1.** Sisyphus, the king of Corinth who cheated death twice — no support - **2.** Ixion, bound to the wheel for loving Hera, not a rock guy at all — no support - **3.** Sisyphus, the rock always rolls back — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** Tityus, the one with the liver — 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 522, line 12: «What was Sisyphus forced to do? He had to roll a huge block of stone up a steep hill, and it "always rolled back again."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «roll back» (+2); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/522-pg22381-part28/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} wait, the Danaides killed fifty husbands in one night?? - **1.** Yeah, except Hypermnestra, she spared hers — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Yeah, all but one, she spared hers — no support - **3.** Yeah, all but Hypermnestra, who spared Lynceus and fled to Argos — no support - **4.** Yeah, they filled that leaky jar forever — 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/522-pg22381-part28/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} ok who gets vultures pecking his liver, lol - **1.** Tityus, for insulting Hera — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Prometheus, chained for stealing fire from Zeus — no support - **3.** Prometheus, for stealing fire — no support - **4.** Tantalus, for killing his son — 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/522-pg22381-part28/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Aides's helmet makes you invisible, right? The Cyclops made it? - **1.** Nah, Athena made it instead — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Yeah, and he even lends it out — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** Yes, and it made Perseus invisible when he fought Medusa — score 3 - **4.** Yeah, Hermes borrows it sometimes — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 522, line 16: «What helmet did Aides own? It was made by the Cyclops and made the wearer invisible, and Aides often lent it out.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «helmet» (+4); the same action «make» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/522-pg22381-part28/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} dude, is Plutus like a king of the underworld? - **1.** Nah, he's the god of wealth, lame then winged — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** Yeah, he rules the shades with Persephone — no support - **3.** Yeah, he's the king of the underworld and judges shades — score 4 - **4.** Yes, he's the ruler of the dead's domain — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 520, line 12: «King Pentheus forbade the people to join the "wild Bacchanalian revels", and he had Dionysus thrown into prison.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «dionysus» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/522-pg22381-part28/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} Harpies are vultures with girl heads?? that's creepy - **1.** Yeah, they steal your food and fly super fast — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Yeah, they're creepy — no support - **3.** Yeah, they're birds that guard the gates — no support - **4.** Yeah, they snatch food and haunt the blind — 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/522-pg22381-part28/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} so the Furies are like guilt, that's why they chase murderers? - **1.** Yeah, they're the daughters of Nyx who hunt the living and the dead — no support - **2.** Yeah, they're the pangs of a bad conscience that drive murderers mad — score 1 - **3.** Yeah, they punish oath breakers — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** Yeah, they're the pangs of a bad conscience — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 522, line 20: «What are the Furies? They personify "the torturing pangs of an evil conscience," and they punish murderers and those who fail their parents.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «punish» (+2); 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/522-pg22381-part28/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} is Rhadamanthus the judge who tells you your torments? - **1.** Nah, that's Minos, not him at all — no support - **2.** Nah, he's the judge of the living, but he tells people their fate — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Yeah, he tells each comer their torments — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** Yeah, he judges all the dead souls — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 84, line 20: «Real life: pictures are much older than writing. People painted animals in caves tens of thousands of years ago, but a picture is not yet writing: it does not…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «exact words» (+4); the same action «tell» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/522-pg22381-part28/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} wait, is Tartarus as deep under Hades as the sky is up?? - **1.** Yeah, the depth matches the height of heaven — no support - **2.** Yeah, Tartarus is as deep below Hades as Olympus is high above earth, and walled with bronze — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Yeah, twice as far down as heaven is up, and then more — no support - **4.** Yeah, as far down as earth is from the skies — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 418, line 17: «Hard words: a "Boyar" was a Russian noble lord, "incalculable" means too great to count, and "Tartarus" was the Greek name for the deepest pit, a kind of hell.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/522-pg22381-part28/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} who was Plutus's mom, the one from Demeter? - **1.** Demeter, with a mortal called Iasion — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Maia, with a mortal called Iasion — no support - **3.** Demeter, with Zeus in a field of barley and ritual — no support - **4.** Demeter, after she had mourned Persephone in the fields of Crete — no support **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/522-pg22381-part28/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} did Tantalus really eat at Zeus's table? - **1.** Nah, he only ate at the table of Hades, serving the shades of the dead — no support - **2.** Yeah, he stole the gods' nectar — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** Yeah, but he was caught stealing their nectar and ambrosia — score 7 - **4.** Yeah, Zeus liked his talk — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 522, line 10: «Why was Tantalus punished? He stole nectar and ambrosia and killed his own son Pelops to test the gods.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «nectar» (+4); the same action «steal» (+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/522-pg22381-part28/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} the Titans are chilling in Tartarus, right? - **1.** Yeah, all the Titans, cast down by Zeus, bound in bronze under the earth — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, the Titans and the Giants and all the sinners of old, chained in darkness — no support - **3.** Yeah, all cast down, bound in the depths — no support - **4.** Yeah, all fallen from high, dragging through — **✓ 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/522-pg22381-part28/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which punishment was imposed upon Sisyphus by the authority of Zeus? - **1.** Perpetual hauling of an immense block of stone across a river of fire to the summit — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **2.** Ceaseless hauling of a heavy stone up a mountain — no support - **3.** Perpetual rolling of a huge stone up a steep hill that always falls back down again — no support - **4.** Perpetual rolling of a block of stone up a steep hill — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 522, line 12: «What was Sisyphus forced to do? He had to roll a huge block of stone up a steep hill, and it "always rolled back again."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); 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/522-pg22381-part28/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Upon what grounds was Ixion condemned to be bound to an ever-revolving wheel? - **1.** Presumptuous courtship of the queen Hera — no support - **2.** Treacherous plotting against Olympus and Zeus — no support - **3.** Presumptuous pursuit of the favour of Hera, whom he even tried to seduce by force — score 7 - **4.** Presumptuous pursuit of the favour of Hera — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 522, line 13: «Why was Ixion bound to a wheel? He tried to win the favour of Hera, so Zeus struck him and sent him to "an ever-revolving wheel."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «favour» (+5); the same thing acted on «hera» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/522-pg22381-part28/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} To what extent did the sphere of action of the Furies extend beyond the realm of shades? - **1.** They hunted murderers on earth and in the sea, and even among the gods of Olympus themselves — score 6 - **2.** They hunted the guilty across the earth's surface — score 1 - **3.** They pursued and punished murderers upon the earth, and also drove the wicked mad inside the underworld's gates — score 7 - **4.** They pursued and punished murderers upon the earth — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 522, line 20: «What are the Furies? They personify "the torturing pangs of an evil conscience," and they punish murderers and those who fail their parents.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «murderers» (+4); the same action «punish» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/522-pg22381-part28/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What was the principal distinction between the Roman Orcus and the Greek Hades prior to the introduction of Greek mythology? - **1.** Orcus was a dark cavity serving as a place of eternal rest for the good and also a prison for the wicked dead — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Orcus was a dark cavity serving as a place of eternal rest, whereas Hades was ruled by a king who judged them — no support - **3.** Orcus was a sunless pit used as a sacred burial vault — no support - **4.** Orcus was a dark cavity serving as a place of eternal rest — **✓ 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/522-pg22381-part28/e4/) - ← previous: [521. 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