--- title: The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spel… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 60 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 16 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/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/) [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/) / 60 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure) **Tests:** 5 of 16 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 20 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 60 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/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/). 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/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} «Ratty lowkey wanted to go, so the Mole should've let him.» (lowkey = a bit) What does the book show? - **1.** He wanted to go, and the Mole should have let him leave — score 3 - **2.** He had been rude to the Mole, so the Mole was right to let him go and sail off forever — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** He was under a spell, not his own choice; the Mole, seeing his friend's grey eyes, held him back and saved him from the sea — score 0 - **4.** He was under a spell, «not his friend's eyes»; the Mole saved him — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 37, line 1: «Rat and Mole stand stamping in the snow for ages until slow, shuffling footsteps come to the door — like someone in slippers too big for him, Mole says, and he…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same property (+2); the same doer «mole» (+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/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Which is TRUE about this part? - **1.** The Mole's eyes turn grey and stay that way forever — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The Rat's eyes turn grey like the Sea Rat's, then brown again — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** They never change — no support - **4.** The Sea Rat's eyes turn brown, then grey 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/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} Isla from Aberdeen: «the wee bairn of a Mole just let his pal walk off.» (bairn = child) Put it right. - **1.** He grappled with him and dragged him inside — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **2.** He ran after him down the lane, caught up at the harbour, and begged him to stay in the town — no support - **3.** He hugged him and walked him to the gate — no support - **4.** He grappled with him fiercely, pinned him down and dragged him inside before he could reach the lane — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 60, line 18: «The Mole saw his eyes «glazed and set and turned a streaked and shifting grey — not his friend's eyes, but the eyes of some other animal!»; he «dragged him ins…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «drag» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} Why does the Mole talk «casually» about the harvest instead of telling the Rat off? - **1.** To be polite — no support - **2.** Because scolding would make the Rat angry and he would run off — no support - **3.** Gently turning his mind back to home and its seasons works better — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** Because he was too shy to speak about the sea — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 44, line 19: «The Mole sees «how plain and simple—how narrow, even—it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him». His old familiar things «now smilingly receiv…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «return» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Why does the Mole suggest poetry? - **1.** It gives the Rat something of his own to do, instead of brooding on the sea, and turns his restless mind toward home and rhyme — no support - **2.** Because the Rat loves poems and wants to be famous — no support - **3.** The Rat must write a long epic poem about the Sea Rat's voyages across the wide grey ocean and send it to the king — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **4.** It gives the Rat something of his own to do, instead of brooding — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 50, line 12: «Now the Mole rows and the Rat sits in the stern; «with a slight movement of his head» the Rat directs him into a backwater, a quiet side-branch of the river.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «direct» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (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/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Jack from Vancouver, in his toque (woolly hat): «the Rat's cured completely by the end, eh?» (eh = right?) Put it right. - **1.** No: the Rat had left the Mole's house for the sea and never came back, so the cure was never begun at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** No: «the cure had at least begun» — just begun — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yes, the Rat was healed and went home — no support - **4.** Yes, fully — 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/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} What would probably have happened if the Mole had arrived five minutes later? - **1.** The Rat would have found his satchel and been happy — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** The Rat might have been far down the road, following the Sea Rat — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** The Rat would have sailed away on the Sea Rat's ship, and the Mole would never have seen him again in the Wild Wood — score 5 - **4.** The Rat might have been far down the road, following the Sea Rat across the grey hills toward the harbour and the wide sea beyond — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. 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 60, line 3: «The voice fades, the stranger becomes a speck on the road, and the Rat, like a sleep-walker, packs a satchel, takes a stick and steps out of his door — just as…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «rat» (+5). 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/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} «The Sea Rat is a bad guy, mate, a villain.» (mate = friend) What is fairer? - **1.** He means well and simply wants a companion for his long voyage home — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** Not a villain: he follows his own call, but his spell is dangerous for the Rat — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Not a villain: he follows his own call and is a stranger to the Rat, but his spell is dangerous for the Rat and must be broken — score 5 - **4.** Not a villain at all, but a sailor who is lonely, tired, and so mad with the sea that he loves the Rat — 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 59, line 20: «The Water Rat follows «league by league» (a league is about three miles), and leaves him «planted at his dull inland farm, about which he desired to hear nothi…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «rat» (+3); the same action «desire» (+2). 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/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} «'Tis but a banging of the door behind you.» What is tricky about that line? - **1.** It makes a huge change sound tiny and easy, even though it means leaving home, friends, and every comfort behind — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It hides the Sea Rat's true intentions behind a rhyme about doors, so the Rat cannot hear the danger in it — no support - **3.** It makes a huge change sound tiny and easy — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It makes a tiny door sound like a huge wall — 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/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} Looking back: in chapter I, the Rat said the Wide World «doesn't matter, either to you or me». What nearly happened today? - **1.** He nearly drowned in the river while trying to reach the Sea Rat's ship before it sailed out of the harbour — score 5 - **2.** He nearly set off into the Wide World himself, leaving his home and the Mole behind forever on a sea voyage — score 8 - **3.** He nearly set off into the Wide World himself — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **4.** He almost walked out to meet the Badger — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 58, line 5: «So the Sea Rat tells of his last trip: family troubles, then the Greek islands, warm nights under the stars, up the Adriatic and into Venice «down a path of go…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «trip» (+5); the same doer «rat» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Looking back: in chapter VII, the Rat was «rapt, transported» by the Piper's music. How is the Sea Rat's spell different? - **1.** It is a kinder, gentler music — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It makes the Rat dance, but it does not harm his friends at all — no support - **3.** It is the same — no support - **4.** It pulls him away from home and friends; the Piper's call led him to help — **✓ 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/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Looking back: in chapter VI, Toad was held down by his friends «for his own good». Who is held down for his own good today? - **1.** Toad — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **2.** Mole — score 8 - **3.** The Rat, by the Badger — score 8 - **4.** The Rat, by the Mole — **✓ the right answer** · score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 43, line 3: «The Rat asks the Mole to tell him all about his house, and the Mole forgets his sadness: this came from an aunt, that was a bargain, this other thing he saved…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «mole» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} Looking back: in chapter I, the Mole knew nothing of boats or rivers. How has he changed by now? - **1.** He still knows nothing of rivers or boats and sits at home — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** He is now a sailor — no support - **3.** He is wise and calm enough to rescue and comfort his teacher — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** He is still scared — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 26, line 3: «The Mole points to a dark wood on one side. «That's just the Wild Wood,» says the Rat shortly. Badger lives in the middle of it, and nobody bothers him — but t…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «know» (+4); the same doer «mole» (+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/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · right ✓ {#t14} Looking back: in chapter III, the Rat sat by the fire «trying over rhymes that wouldn't fit». What does the Mole use that love of his now for? - **1.** To compose a long poem about the sea — score 1 - **2.** To help him heal, with a pencil and paper — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **3.** To write letters — no support - **4.** To teach the Badger how to rhyme — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 45, line 3: «The Badger tells the chauffeur he won't be wanted, and the friends bundle Toad inside. «Take those ridiculous things off!» «Shan't!» So the Rat sits on him and…», 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 thing acted on «toad» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t14/) ### Test 15 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t15} ★★★ Careful: when the Rat's eyes are grey, whose eyes do they look like? - **1.** The Mole's eyes — no support - **2.** The Badger's brown eyes — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** The Sea Rat's grey-green eyes — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** The Piper's bright blue eyes — no support **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 60, line 5: «When the Rat wakes, his eyes are brown again but he is flat and sad; the tactful Mole chats about the harvest, apples and cosy winter, then leaves a pencil and…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «eyes» (+3); the same property (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t15/) ### Test 16 · ★ · right ✓ {#t16} ★★★ The Mole's talk goes: harvest, then apples and nuts, then jams and cordials, then midwinter. Why that order? - **1.** It is random — no support - **2.** It walks step by step from now towards cosy winter at home — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** It starts with the harvest and ends with the sea and the ship — no support - **4.** No reason — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «clever step» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/t16/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Identify the agencies described as having «mastered the Water Rat and held him bound». - **1.** The shifting grey of the seafarer's eyes and the steadfast red of the wine — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The shifting eyes of the Mole and the steadfast gold of the ale — no support - **3.** The sea and the wind — no support - **4.** The seafarer's cold stare and the Rat's red wine glass on the table — 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/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} State the condition of the Water Rat's eyes as observed by the Mole upon his attempted departure. - **1.** Sleepy and dim, with dark brown rings around them — no support - **2.** Glazed and set, and turned a streaked and shifting grey, staring far past the Mole toward the distant grey sea horizon — no support - **3.** Wide and bright, turned toward the window and bright blue — no support - **4.** Glazed and set, and turned a streaked and shifting grey — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · 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 60, line 18: «The Mole saw his eyes «glazed and set and turned a streaked and shifting grey — not his friend's eyes, but the eyes of some other animal!»; he «dragged him ins…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+2); the same thing acted on «streaked shifting grey» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Ascertain the course adopted by the Mole in respect of his companion's satchel. - **1.** He stuffed it into the cellar and left it there — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** He placed it under the table and sat on it — no support - **3.** He burned it — no support - **4.** He threw it into a drawer and locked it — **✓ 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/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which of the following statements is consistent with the established facts concerning the conclusion of the ninth chapter? - **1.** The Rat sailed off, and the Mole wept at the door — no support - **2.** The Water Rat, supplied with pencil and paper, began to compose verse, and the cure was said to have begun — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** The Rat, given paper, wrote a letter to the Sea Rat and was then at once reconciled with his ship and the sea — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** The Rat was sad — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 59, line 7: «He says: «I never stick too long to one ship; one gets narrow-minded and prejudiced» (prejudiced = having fixed opinions before knowing the facts).», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «rat» (+3); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: 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/60-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure/e4/) - ← previous: [59. The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Way…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road/) - next →: [61. 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