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title: Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and scie… — how Mova does on the tests · History
description: Lesson 64 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 10 tests right, exam 3 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science

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**Tests:** 4 of 10 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 8 of 14 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 64 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/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/).

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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/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/).

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### Test 1 · right ✓ {#t1}

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Ryan reckons school's a modern torture invented last century. What would his teacher say?

- **1.** Schools are old, but back then only grown-ups went to school — no support
- **2.** Schools began with the internet, so about 30 years ago — score 0
- **3.** Correct, school only began in about the year 2000 — score 0
- **4.** Schools are about 4,000 years old, but most kids did not go — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 42, line 1: «Around 988 Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv took Christianity from Byzantium; Danylo says he dunked everyone in the Dnipro in one day, but a whole land took generation…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «school» (+1); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/t1/)

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### Test 2 · right ✓ {#t2}

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Maya's mate: «alexandria burned in ONE night, everything gone». Fair?

- **1.** Too simple; it declined slowly and historians still argue — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **2.** Totally right, one night, every scroll gone, done — no support
- **3.** Nah, it was flooded by the Nile and all the scrolls got wet — no support
- **4.** It burned twice a year for a hundred years — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 64, line 2: «Maya's friend says the Library of Alexandria burned in one night and all ancient knowledge was lost. What really happened: it was damaged by fire in 48 BCE and…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «historians» (+5); the same action «argue» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/t2/)

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### Test 3 · right ✓ {#t3}

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Tom says it's Oxford, no way it's Fez. What is the fairest answer?

- **1.** Neither of them has ever had a real university — score 4
- **2.** Fez was only founded in 2001, so Oxford wins — score 3
- **3.** Oxford is clearly older than Fez, by several hundred years — score 3
- **4.** Fez is much older, but «first» depends on what you count — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 64, line 3: «Yasmin says the oldest university is in Fez, Morocco; Tom says Oxford. Al-Qarawiyyin in Fez was founded in 859 by a woman, Fatima al-Fihri, long before Oxford;…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «first» (+5); the same action «depend» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/t3/)

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### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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What would happen if every library charged for each book?

- **1.** Nothing at all would change for anyone — no support
- **2.** Books would all become free in the shops instead — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** Everyone would read more, because paying is fun — no support
- **4.** Poor families could not read books they cannot buy — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 2: «Taras Shevchenko was born a serf, which meant he belonged to a landowner; artists bought his freedom in 1838, and his book of poems «Kobzar» became a founding…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «become» (+2); the same doer «book» (+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/history/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/t4/)

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### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Grandma Rosa's grandmother worked on the farm from age seven. Why was that normal then?

- **1.** Children liked farm work more than they liked lessons — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** Most children worked; school for all came only recently — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** Schools were banned for everyone, children and grown-ups alike — no support
- **4.** There were no schools at all anywhere in the world then — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 64, line 4: «Think of your library card: free books for anyone. For most of history that was a dream. Most children worked on farms or in workshops, many girls got no schoo…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «work» (+2); the same doer «most children» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/t5/)

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### Test 6 · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Hamid says it's well unfair that girls were kept out of school. What is true today?

- **1.** It was fought for, and gaps still remain in some places — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Girls were never kept out of school anywhere at all — no support
- **3.** Only boys are allowed to go to school today — score 4
- **4.** Every girl everywhere now goes to school, no gaps left — **← Mova's choice** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 64, line 10: «For centuries many girls got little or no schooling; today nearly as many girls as boys go to primary school, but in Afghanistan girls have been banned from se…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «secondary school» (+5); the same doer «many girls» (+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/history/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/t6/)

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### Test 7 · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Lily's mum calls the Encyclopédie «Wikipedia from the 1750s». What is alike?

- **1.** Both were written by machines, not by people — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Both are carved on stone for the readers to visit — no support
- **3.** Both were banned by every king the moment they began — no support
- **4.** Both aim to share knowledge with ordinary readers — **✓ 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/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/t7/)

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### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Patrick's uncle learned plumbing by watching and doing, bud. What old way is that?

- **1.** A university degree, mate — no support
- **2.** A guild run by kings — no support
- **3.** An apprenticeship — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A proper online course — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 60, line 4: «That closes the course. Mei and Danylo learnt to check their sources; the teacher said he learnt a lot from both of them. Pride and truth can live together, an…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «course» (+2). Against it: a different doer (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/history/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/t8/)

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### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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In your strategy game, a university gives +1 tech. In real medieval Europe, what did universities mostly train?

- **1.** Plumbers, bakers and builders — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Priests, lawyers and doctors — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Pilots and engineers — no support
- **4.** Footballers, actors and singers — 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/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/t9/)

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### Test 10 · right ✓ {#t10}

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Zoe says being ready to be wrong is lowkey weird for science. Why is it the point?

- **1.** Testing and correcting ideas finds better answers — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Being wrong is never useful, so it should be hidden — no support
- **3.** Science is just a long list of facts to learn by heart — no support
- **4.** Scientists never change their minds once they decide — 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/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/t10/)

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

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Identify the person credited with the foundation of Al-Qarawiyyin in Fez in the year 859.

- **1.** Fatima al-Fihri — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Andrew Carnegie — no support
- **3.** Denis Diderot — no support
- **4.** Ibn al-Haytham — 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/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the decline of the Library of Alexandria.

- **1.** It has remained in continuous operation since its foundation — no support
- **2.** It was destroyed entirely in a single night, together with every scroll it held — no support
- **3.** It was never constructed and is known solely from legend — no support
- **4.** It suffered damage by fire and probably declined gradually over centuries — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 64, line 7: «The Library of Alexandria in Egypt was founded around 300 BCE, was damaged by a fire in 48 BCE and probably declined slowly over centuries; the details are arg…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «centuries» (+5); the same action «decline» (+2); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises apprenticeship as practised for centuries?

- **1.** A learner resided and laboured with a master craftsperson for some years — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A learner was forbidden to practise any trade until the age of thirty — no support
- **3.** A learner attended university lectures delivered in Latin for some years — no support
- **4.** A learner consulted printed encyclopaedias in a public library — 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/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/e3/)

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

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Identify the principal characteristic of the scientific method as practised by Ibn al-Haytham.

- **1.** The memorisation of a fixed list of facts — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The prohibition of all questions — no support
- **3.** The testing of ideas by experiment and their revision — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The acceptance of all ancient opinions — 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/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/e4/)

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