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title: Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days — how Mova does on the tests · Religion ethics
description: Lesson 68 of the religion ethics 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.
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# Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days

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**Tests:** 7 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 4 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 68 of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/).

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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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/).

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### Test 1 · right ✓ {#t1}

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«Grandad's birthday cake when he's dead?? that's mad weird fam,» says Ellie's cousin from London (fam = mate). Fair answer?

- **1.** Not weird; it's a way of saying he's still part of us — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It's a spell to bring Grandad back to life — no support
- **3.** He's right; you should forget birthdays after a death — no support
- **4.** Only royal families may celebrate the dead — 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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/t1/)

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### Test 2 · right ✓ {#t2}

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A rough older brother says, «Chuck that tatty hoodie in the bin, it's minging» (minging = smelly). Why might Jack want to keep it?

- **1.** It is the only warm hoodie in the house — no support
- **2.** It smells of his dad and comforts him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** His dad's ghost lives inside it — no support
- **4.** It will be worth a lot of money one day — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 68, line 5: «Christians light candles and pray for those they miss, many families plant a tree or keep a hoodie that still smells of Dad, and people of every faith and none…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «smell» (+3); the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «hoodie» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/t2/)

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### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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What would happen if Mia smelled Grandma's perfume again next year?

- **1.** It might bring sudden tears again, and that's normal — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** She would definitely feel nothing at all next time, because grief ends — score 2
- **3.** It would mean her grief was never real — no support
- **4.** She would have to see a doctor at once — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 68, line 4: «Grief can also jump out of nowhere: six months after Grandma died, Mia smells Grandma's perfume on a lady in a shop and starts crying; this is called a grief t…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mia» (+4). 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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/t3/)

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### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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In a film, a girl buries all her mum's photos so she «won't be sad». What's a better idea from real life?

- **1.** Photos only make grief last much, much longer — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Forgetting completely is the only way to heal — no support
- **3.** Burying photos like that stops grief for ever — no support
- **4.** Keep memories close; they can comfort — **✓ 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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/t4/)

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### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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«Can I keep it forever? Like FOREVER forever?» asks Ellie about her memory box. Best answer?

- **1.** No, it has to be buried with Grandad at the cemetery, next to him — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Only if she never shows it to anybody — no support
- **3.** Yes, and open it whenever she misses him — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** No, memory boxes are only for a year — 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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/t5/)

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### Test 6 · right ✓ {#t6}

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A Gen Alpha kid says, «Posting 'miss u' to a dead uncle is so Ohio, he can't even see it» (so Ohio = weird). What's true?

- **1.** He can't see it; the posts help the family share love — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Posting about the dead is always disrespectful — no support
- **3.** He can see it if enough people like the post — no support
- **4.** The post goes straight to heaven if it's set to public, not private — 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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/t6/)

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### Test 7 · right ✓ {#t7}

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The vicar announces, very formally: «On All Souls' Day we shall read aloud the names of those departed this year.» Why?

- **1.** To punish families who forgot to come — no support
- **2.** To check that nobody is missing from church — no support
- **3.** To remember them before God on a special day — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** To decide who goes to heaven this year — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 15: «Emmanuel is a name for Jesus meaning «God with us».», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «name» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). 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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/t7/)

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### Test 8 · right ✓ {#t8}

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«Me mam's dead quiet today, she won't talk, what've I done?» asks Zoe in Newcastle. It's the anniversary of her brother's death. Best answer?

- **1.** Mum has stopped loving the family — no support
- **2.** Nothing; Mum is remembering her son and feeling sad — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** Zoe must have done something very naughty that Mum found out about — no support
- **4.** Mum has forgotten what day it is — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 62, line 3: «The vicar speaks in very formal, old words, such as «to remember before God our brother Peter, to give thanks for his life and commend him to God», because a f…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «remember» (+4); the same thing acted on «brother» (+1). 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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/t8/)

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### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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«I'm gonna plant a tree for my nan, will it make me remember her?» asks Sophie. Best answer?

- **1.** Only oak trees work for remembering someone who has died — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It can be a living reminder that grows each year — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It only works if Nan's ashes are under it — no support
- **4.** Trees make you forget so it hurts less — 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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/t9/)

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### Test 10 · right ✓ {#t10}

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A boy in Glasgow says, «Ah cannae listen tae Mam's voice message, it does ma heid in» (cannae = can't, heid = head). What's right?

- **1.** It's okay not to listen; it's his choice — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He should delete it at once, to stop the pain — no support
- **3.** Not listening means he didn't really love her — no support
- **4.** He must listen to it every day to stay close — 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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/t10/)

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### Test 11 · right ✓ {#t11}

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Myth to check: «Remembering someone on special days keeps you stuck in sadness.»

- **1.** False; it is a way of keeping love close — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** True; it stops grief ever getting softer — no support
- **3.** True; you should forget special days — no support
- **4.** False, but only after ten years — 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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the purpose of a memory box?

- **1.** It is a receptacle in which correspondence is dispatched to the deceased — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It is required to be interred together with the deceased — no support
- **3.** It is intended to prevent the bereaved from remembering the deceased — no support
- **4.** It preserves objects associated with a deceased person so that they may be remembered — **✓ 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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/e1/)

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

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Identify the term denoting a sensation, such as a scent, which suddenly occasions renewed feelings of loss.

- **1.** A memorial service — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A grief trigger — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** A memory box — no support
- **4.** An anniversary — no support

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**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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/e2/)

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

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning messages addressed to the deceased upon social media.

- **1.** They are not read by the deceased but enable the living to share their affection — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** They are received by the deceased upon the anniversary of death — no support
- **3.** They are prohibited by the principal religious traditions — no support
- **4.** They cause the deceased to appear in dreams — 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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/e3/)

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

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Whereas festivals and anniversaries frequently renew grief, ascertain which practice is commonly observed by bereaved families.

- **1.** The cancellation of all festivals for a period of ten years — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The removal of every photograph from the household — no support
- **3.** The prohibition of all mention of the deceased — no support
- **4.** The lighting of candles, prayers, or the setting of an empty place in remembrance — **✓ 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/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/e4/)

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- next →: [69. When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer/)
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