--- title: Classic Myths, Odysseus: the bow contest and the homecoming — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 561 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 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/561-pg22381-part67/) [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/) / 561 # Classic Myths, Odysseus: the bow contest and the homecoming **Tests:** 3 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 561 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/561-pg22381-part67/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} yo, did any of the suitors actually manage to bend that bow? - **1.** yeah, one guy nearly got it bent — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** nah, every suitor tried really hard but the bow was too stiff for all of them — no support - **3.** nah, not one of them could even string it, so the old man just grabbed it — no support - **4.** nah, not a single one had the strength — **✓ 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/561-pg22381-part67/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} so the old beggar gets a go, right? and the nobles just let him? - **1.** nah, they mocked him loudly until the king's son finally stepped in between them — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** nah, they mocked him till Telemachus stepped in — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** yeah, they gave him a turn, sure — no support - **4.** yeah they let him, but only after a long argument that nobody could settle — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 560, line 17: «Old word: "mendicant" means a beggar, someone who lives by asking others for food or money.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «beggar» (+3); the same doer «old word» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/561-pg22381-part67/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} wait, who did he shoot first, like for real? - **1.** Eurymachus, through the chest — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Antinous, the suitor who had insulted the beggar, through the chest — no support - **3.** Eurymachus, the leader, straight through the throat with a single arrow — no support - **4.** Antinous, straight through the heart — **✓ 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/561-pg22381-part67/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} bruh, how did the suitors not notice their weapons were gone? - **1.** they were stored in a locked room — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Telemachus had already removed them, like Odysseus said — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Telemachus had carried every spear and shield out of the hall while the suitors were busy drinking and feasting — no support - **4.** Telemachus had hidden them, as told — 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/561-pg22381-part67/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} so did Penelope just believe him right away? - **1.** nah, she doubted — no support - **2.** yeah, she accepted him at once — no support - **3.** nah, she was still sus and tested him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** nah, she wanted to be sure — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 561, line 5: «Penelope tests the stranger with the bed Odysseus built around a living olive-tree, and then he is reunited with his father Laertes, until the rebels are final…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «test» (+4); the same doer «penelope» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/561-pg22381-part67/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} what was the secret thing about the bed, tho? - **1.** the bed was built around a living olive tree that still had roots in the earth beneath the palace — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **2.** one foot was an olive stump still in the ground — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** the base was a rooted olive trunk — no support - **4.** the whole frame was carved from a living olive tree which stood rooted in the courtyard — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 223, line 2: «They lead the prince to a big room, make his bed, and bring food from the kitchen.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same thing acted on «bed» (+3). 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/561-pg22381-part67/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} where did he go to glow up before the reunion? - **1.** to the women's bath, where he was oiled and dressed in a clean cloak, looking very handsome — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** to the bath, then he dressed up — no support - **3.** the bath, where he washed off the dust and blood, then came out in fine clothes looking like a king — no support - **4.** the bath, and he came out looking hella fine — **✓ the right answer** · 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/561-pg22381-part67/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} yo, where did Odysseus find his dad? - **1.** in the fields — score 2 - **2.** tending his grapevines near the sea — no support - **3.** at the farm — score 2 - **4.** digging up an olive tree on his farm — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 556, line 6: «Who: Odysseus is the clever hero of this part, while Philoctetes, Paris, Oenone, Helen and Sinon all play their own roles in his plan.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «odysseus» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/561-pg22381-part67/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} why was Laertes dressed so raggedy? - **1.** he had sold his royal robes to buy food for his household during the long famine — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** he wore a worker's old tunic — no support - **3.** he was dressed like a labourer — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** his clothes were old and torn — 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/561-pg22381-part67/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} did the son cry when he saw his dad? - **1.** yeah, he turned away to hide his tears — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** yeah, he cried — score 5 - **3.** yeah, he looked away to cry — score 6 - **4.** no, he just stood there quietly — 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 476, line 16: «The money: the more the sons give it away, "the more did it increase."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4); the same doer «sons» (+1); 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/561-pg22381-part67/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} so after all that, did the rebels just win? - **1.** nah, they fought and then surrendered — no support - **2.** nah, after a long bloody war across the whole island, the rebels were finally crushed — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **3.** nah, a short fight, then they made peace — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yeah, the rebels won the first battle but lost the second, and then peace came — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 561, line 5: «Penelope tests the stranger with the bed Odysseus built around a living olive-tree, and then he is reunited with his father Laertes, until the rebels are final…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4); the same thing acted on «rebels» (+3); 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/561-pg22381-part67/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} how long did he rule after that, like, chill? - **1.** he ruled for a long time — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** for many years, until he was old and his son took the throne after him — no support - **3.** he was king for years — no support - **4.** for many years, he was king — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 342, line 6: «Who: King Canute, a Dane who ruled England "a hundred years or more after the time of Alfred the Great".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4). 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/561-pg22381-part67/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} was the festival of Apollo like a huge party? - **1.** yes, there was lots of drinking — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** no, it was a sacred offering at the altar, with only priests and the elders present — no support - **3.** yes, the suitors feasted with extra revelry — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yes, the suitors feasted with extra revelry, drinking and dancing in the hall for many days — 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/561-pg22381-part67/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Upon what condition did Penelope declare that she would choose her husband from among the suitors? - **1.** Once someone bent the bow and shot an arrow through twelve rings with it — no support - **2.** Upon the bending of the great bow and the sending of an arrow through twelve rings — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Only after every suitor had tried the great bow of Odysseus, and one had sent an arrow through twelve rings in the presence of the elders — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **4.** Upon the bending of the great bow, the sending of an arrow through twelve rings, and the presence of all the suitors at the hall on the feast day — no support **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 561, line 2: «The suitors all try, and every one of them fails because none has the strength.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «try» (+1). Against it: the same doer «suitors» (-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/561-pg22381-part67/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} By what means did Telemachus render the suitors unable to defend themselves? - **1.** By hiding their swords in the storeroom at night — no support - **2.** By removing their arms in accordance with Odysseus's instructions — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10 - **3.** By removing every one of the suitors' arms from the great hall in secret while they slept, following Odysseus's written instructions — no support - **4.** By carefully carrying every spear, shield, and sword from the hall to the upper chambers, as his father had instructed him earlier — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 561, line 14: «The weapons: Telemachus had already removed the arms "in obedience to the instructions of Odysseus".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «remove» (+7); the same thing acted on «arms» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/561-pg22381-part67/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Why did Penelope subject her husband to the test of the bed? - **1.** Because she remained unconvinced of his identity — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Because she had not yet been fully persuaded that the stranger was really her husband Odysseus after twenty years — no support - **3.** Because she doubted his real identity — no support - **4.** Because she had heard that the beggar might be a spy sent by the suitors to deceive her and seize the throne — 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/561-pg22381-part67/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What was the eventual outcome of the rebellion of the relatives of the suitors? - **1.** The rebels were slaughtered by Odysseus's men in the field, and the survivors were sent into exile on other islands — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Peace was agreed after a brief armed struggle — no support - **3.** Reconciliation was achieved through peaceful negotiation with Odysseus — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** They were defeated in a brief battle with Odysseus — 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/561-pg22381-part67/e4/) - ← previous: [560. 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