--- title: Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside «The Wind… — how Mova does on the tests · Language description: Lesson 43 of the language course of Mova's primary school: 7 of 11 tests right, exam 1 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/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/) / 43 # Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside «The Wind in the Willows» **Tests:** 7 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 9 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 43 of the language 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/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/). 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/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/). ### Test 1 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} «the piper's just some random goat guy right» What is the best answer? - **1.** He is the Badger wearing a costume he made for the summer — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** He is Pan, the Greek god of the wild, though the book never says his name — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** He is a real goat that has learnt to play music from the shepherds — no support - **4.** He is a farmer who has dressed up as a goat for a party in the village — 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/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t2} A friend says the word «panic» comes from people dropping frying pans. What is right? - **1.** It comes from the sound a scared duck makes — score 5 - **2.** It comes from the god Pan, who was said to send sudden fear — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** Yes, it comes from frying pans clattering on stone kitchen floors — score 5 - **4.** It comes from a city called Panic in Italy — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 43, line 9: «The Greeks said the sudden, wild fear people felt in lonely places was sent by Pan, so it was called «panic»; the book says carefully that the Mole felt awe, n…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «send» (+4); the same thing acted on «sudden wild fear» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t3} In the myth Pan frightens people; in the book he is a kind «Friend and Helper». What does that show? - **1.** The Greeks never told any stories about Pan at all — score 3 - **2.** A writer can borrow a myth and change it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** The book got the myth wrong by mistake — no support - **4.** Pan became kinder as he got older — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 43, line 3: «The last chapter, «The Return of Ulysses», borrows another myth: the hero Ulysses comes home after years away and finds strangers feasting in his hall, just as…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «borrow» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «myth» (+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/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} You blow across a short pipe and a long pipe. Which sounds higher? - **1.** Neither makes a sound — no support - **2.** Both sound the same — score 5 - **3.** The short pipe — **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **4.** The long pipe — **← Mova's choice** · score 10 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 10, against 9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 43, line 8: «In pan-pipes the shorter pipes play higher notes and the longer pipes play lower notes, because a shorter column of air vibrates faster.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «longer pipes» (+5); the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 9. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t5} «why is the last chapter called the return of ulysses, there's no ulysses in it» What is the best answer? - **1.** It is a mistake by the printer — no support - **2.** Ulysses was the name of Toad's father, who built Toad Hall — no support - **3.** Ulysses is the real name of the Badger, which he keeps secret from his friends — no support - **4.** Like Ulysses, Toad comes home and drives out the strangers feasting in his hall — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 43, line 3: «The last chapter, «The Return of Ulysses», borrows another myth: the hero Ulysses comes home after years away and finds strangers feasting in his hall, just as…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «feast» (+2); the same doer «strangers» (+2); the same place «hall» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t6} Mole goes to the stoats dressed as a washerwoman before the battle. Which part of the Odyssey is like that? - **1.** Odysseus stole a chariot from the king — no support - **2.** Odysseus came home dressed as a beggar — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** Odysseus fought a dragon in the hall — no support - **4.** Odysseus sold his horse to a gipsy for gold — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 43, line 13: «When Odysseus got home, many men were feasting in his hall, eating his food and wanting to marry his wife Penelope; he came in dressed as a beggar and, with hi…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «dress» (+3); the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «odysseus» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t7} «my cousin's gap year was a proper odyssey» What does she mean? - **1.** It was a short, boring week at home — no support - **2.** It was a long, adventurous journey — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** She read a Greek poem all year — no support - **4.** She sailed to Troy in a wooden horse — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 43, line 14: «An «odyssey» now means any long, adventurous journey, and a «mentor», a wise guide, comes from Mentor, the old friend of Odysseus whose shape the goddess Athen…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «odyssey» (+2); the same thing acted on «long adventurous journey» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t8} A nature programme talks about «the flora and fauna of the river bank». What is it about? - **1.** The plants and animals of the river bank — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** Two famous Roman sisters who lived there — no support - **3.** The weather and seasons of the river — no support - **4.** The boats and bridges of the river bank — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 43, line 10: «The Romans had a similar god of the woods called Faunus, and a goddess of flowers called Flora; from them come «fauna», meaning the animals of a place, and «fl…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «animals» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Which word does NOT come from a myth? - **1.** Cereal — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** Panic — no support - **3.** Echo — score 0 - **4.** Window — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 43, line 15: ««Echo» comes from a nymph called Echo who could only repeat the last words others said; «cereal» comes from Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain; January is named…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «come» (+2); the same doer «cereal» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). 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/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t10} «Dulce Domum» is about the Mole longing for his home. Which English word comes from the same Latin «domus»? - **1.** Domestic — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** Dormitory — score 3 - **3.** Dandelion — score 3 - **4.** Doodle — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 43, line 2: «The old Greeks said Pan lived in wild places and that the sudden wild fear people felt alone in the hills came from him; that is where our word «panic» comes f…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come» (+2); the same doer «word» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} ★★★ A set of pan-pipes has 8 pipes. The longest is 24 cm and each next pipe is 2 cm shorter. How long is the shortest pipe? - **1.** 12 cm — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 16 cm — no support - **3.** 8 cm — no support - **4.** 10 cm — **✓ 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/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the figure of Greek myth who is represented, though not named, in the chapter «The Piper at the Gates of Dawn». - **1.** Apollo, god of the sun — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Poseidon, ruler of the sea, of horses and of earthquakes — no support - **3.** Hermes, messenger of the gods — no support - **4.** Pan, deity of wild places, of shepherds and of their flocks — **✓ 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/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the origin of the English word «panic». - **1.** It derives from the god Pan, to whom sudden irrational terror was attributed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It derives from the name of a Roman emperor — no support - **3.** It derives from an implement of the kitchen, which made a great noise when dropped upon stone — no support - **4.** It derives from an Old English word for haste — 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/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Ascertain the reason for which the final chapter of the novel bears the title «The Return of Ulysses». - **1.** The Badger is revealed to be a Greek king who has been living in disguise — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Toad visits Greece upon a motor tour — no support - **3.** The hero, returning home, expels the strangers feasting in his hall, as did Odysseus — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The chapter recounts a voyage to Troy undertaken by the Water Rat and the Mole in the Rat's boat — 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/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the term «mentor»? - **1.** It denotes a sea monster of Greek myth — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It denotes a Roman coin — no support - **3.** It denotes a wise guide and derives from a character in the Odyssey — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It denotes a musical instrument made of reeds and played by the shepherds of Arcadia — 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/language/43-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows/e4/) - ← previous: [42. 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