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title: Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers — how Mova does on the tests · History
description: Lesson 12 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 11 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers

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**Tests:** 4 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 5 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 12 of the history 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/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/).

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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/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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mate says ancient Olympic winners got gold medals like now. did they?

- **1.** No, they got nothing at all, not even a prize — no support
- **2.** Yes, gold, silver and bronze, just like now — no support
- **3.** No, they got a crown of olive leaves — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10
- **4.** Yes, and a new chariot and a big house — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 9: «Ancient Olympic winners got a crown of olive leaves, not gold medals, and only men could compete; the modern Olympics began in 1896.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «ancient olympic winners» (+4); the same thing acted on «crown» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Your sister says everyone in Athens could vote. Is she right?

- **1.** No, only the king voted — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No, women, slaves and foreigners could not — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yes, every single person living in the city — no support
- **4.** Yes, even children voted — no support

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**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/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Disney's Hercules is great fun. What is fair to say?

- **1.** Hercules was a Roman emperor — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It follows the old Greek myth exactly, scene by scene — no support
- **3.** It is a true history film — no support
- **4.** It changes almost everything in the Greek myth — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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In Percy Jackson the gods are like modern heroes. What were they for the Greeks?

- **1.** Only cartoon characters — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Real gods to worship — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Aliens from outer space — no support
- **4.** Ordinary kings of Athens — no support

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**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/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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If Athenians feared a politician might make himself king, what could they do?

- **1.** Make him their king at once, to keep the peace — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **2.** Nothing, voting was banned — no support
- **3.** Give him an olive crown — score 4
- **4.** Vote to ostracise him for ten years — **✓ the right answer** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. 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 10, line 2: «The Chinese learned to make silk from silkworm cocoons and kept the method secret for centuries, so rich people from Rome to Persia paid a fortune for it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «make» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Why might powerful people have been upset by Socrates' questions?

- **1.** His questions showed they did not know as much as they thought — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** He shouted at them in the street — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** He stole their money and their gold — score 0
- **4.** He spoke only Persian, so nobody could understand him — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 12, line 13: «Socrates taught by asking questions about what is good, fair and true, which often showed that important people knew less than they thought, and he was put on…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «socrates» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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A doctor says your fever is a punishment from Zeus. What would Hippocrates say?

- **1.** Look for the natural cause of the illness — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Fevers are caused by sitting too long in the theatre — no support
- **3.** Zeus is right, as always — no support
- **4.** Pray to Zeus and do nothing else at all — no support

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**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/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Why do we still use the word panic?

- **1.** It was a Roman city — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It means olive oil — no support
- **3.** It is the name of an Olympic sport — no support
- **4.** It comes from the Greek god Pan — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Why did the Olympics pause wars?

- **1.** Because all the soldiers were running in the races — no support
- **2.** Because Zeus banned swords for ever — no support
- **3.** Because it was winter — no support
- **4.** So athletes and fans could travel safely — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 8: «The Olympic Games began in 776 BC at Olympia in honour of Zeus, with running, wrestling, the discus and chariot races, and wars paused so people could travel s…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «travel» (+2); the same property (+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/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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ok so how did Eratosthenes measure the earth, he didn't have a plane?

- **1.** He asked a god — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He used shadows and some clever maths — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He walked all the way round the world — no support
- **4.** He sailed around it in a year and counted the days — no support

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**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/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Alexander spread Greek language and ideas from Egypt to India. Which is true?

- **1.** He never left Greece — no support
- **2.** He lived to 100 — no support
- **3.** He died young, at 32 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** He was a Roman — no support

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**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 12, line 17: «Alexander of Macedon, taught by Aristotle, conquered a huge empire from Greece to Egypt and India before he died at 32, and founded Alexandria in Egypt.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «die» (+2); the same doer «alexander» (+2); the same place «32» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Identify the definition of the term democracy as understood in classical Athens.

- **1.** Government by the assembled citizens — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Government by the priests of Zeus — no support
- **3.** Government by a hereditary monarch and his sons — no support
- **4.** Government by the army alone — no support

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**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/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the reward conferred upon victors at the ancient Olympic Games.

- **1.** A sum of silver coins — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A gold medal — no support
- **3.** A chariot of bronze — no support
- **4.** A wreath of olive leaves — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the teaching of Hippocrates in respect of disease?

- **1.** Disease is transmitted by the theatre — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Disease arises from natural causes — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Disease is a punishment inflicted by the gods — no support
- **4.** Disease is caused by the phases of the Moon — no support

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**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/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Ascertain the persons excluded from voting in the assembly of Athens.

- **1.** The wealthy citizens alone — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Women, the enslaved and foreigners — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Men born of Athenian parents — no support
- **4.** Citizens of advanced age — no support

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**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/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/e4/)

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