Question
Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.
As in a smithy
one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam-the way they make soft iron hale and hard—: just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.
The use of the epic simile in this except helps the reader understand
• that the Cyclops only has one eye.
• how brutal Odysseus and his men are.
• the size of the wooden spear.
• how hot the spear actually is.
As in a smithy
one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam-the way they make soft iron hale and hard—: just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.
The use of the epic simile in this except helps the reader understand
• that the Cyclops only has one eye.
• how brutal Odysseus and his men are.
• the size of the wooden spear.
• how hot the spear actually is.
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Answer
Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.
'O Cyclops! Would you feast on my companions?
Puny, am I, in a Caveman's hands?
How do you like the beating that we gave you, you damned cannibal? Eater of guests
under your roof! Zeus and the gods have paid you!'
According to this except, Odysseus
• is fearful of the Cyclops. is prideful and overly confident.
• has been weakened by the Cyclops. has regrets about staying on the island.
'O Cyclops! Would you feast on my companions?
Puny, am I, in a Caveman's hands?
How do you like the beating that we gave you, you damned cannibal? Eater of guests
under your roof! Zeus and the gods have paid you!'
According to this except, Odysseus
• is fearful of the Cyclops. is prideful and overly confident.
• has been weakened by the Cyclops. has regrets about staying on the island.
Answer
Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.
Then,
his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver.
What two things are being compared in this epic simile?
• the door slab to the Cyclops' sheep
• the stone to a quiver
• a brace of men to breakfast
• the Cyclops chores to the men
Then,
his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver.
What two things are being compared in this epic simile?
• the door slab to the Cyclops' sheep
• the stone to a quiver
• a brace of men to breakfast
• the Cyclops chores to the men
Answer
Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.
My heart beat high now at the chance of action, and drawing the sharp sword from my hip I went along his flank to stab him where the midriff holds the liver. I had touched the spot when sudden fear stayed me: if I killed him we perished there as well, for we could never move his ponderous doorway slab aside.
So we were left to groan and wait for morning.
What prevents Odysseus from killing the sleeping
Cyclops?
• He thinks he can reason with the Cyclops in the morning.
• He wants to make the Cyclops his ally and friend.
• He knows that they cannot move the boulder blocking the doorway.
• He feels sorry for the Cyclops who lives all by himself.
My heart beat high now at the chance of action, and drawing the sharp sword from my hip I went along his flank to stab him where the midriff holds the liver. I had touched the spot when sudden fear stayed me: if I killed him we perished there as well, for we could never move his ponderous doorway slab aside.
So we were left to groan and wait for morning.
What prevents Odysseus from killing the sleeping
Cyclops?
• He thinks he can reason with the Cyclops in the morning.
• He wants to make the Cyclops his ally and friend.
• He knows that they cannot move the boulder blocking the doorway.
• He feels sorry for the Cyclops who lives all by himself.
Answer
Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.
Why not
take these cheeses, get them stowed, come back, throw open all the pens, and make a run for it?
We'll drive the kids and lambs aboard. We say put out again on good salt water!'
Ah,
how sound that was. Yet I refused. I wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer— no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends.
Based on this excerpt, what inference can be made about Odysseus? Select two options.
Odysseus is a careless leader who does not care about the safety of his crew.
Odysseus's curiosity about the Cyclops is stronger than his good judgment.
• Odysseus wants to see if the Cyclops has anything to give to him and his men.
Odysseus is worried about appearing weak in front of his men.
Why not
take these cheeses, get them stowed, come back, throw open all the pens, and make a run for it?
We'll drive the kids and lambs aboard. We say put out again on good salt water!'
Ah,
how sound that was. Yet I refused. I wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer— no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends.
Based on this excerpt, what inference can be made about Odysseus? Select two options.
Odysseus is a careless leader who does not care about the safety of his crew.
Odysseus's curiosity about the Cyclops is stronger than his good judgment.
• Odysseus wants to see if the Cyclops has anything to give to him and his men.
Odysseus is worried about appearing weak in front of his men.
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• that the spear is extremely hot
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• is prideful and overly confident.
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• the stone to a quiver
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• He knows that they cannot move the boulder blocking the doorway.
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- Odysseus's curiosity about the Cyclops is stronger than his good judgment.
- Odysseus wants to see if the Cyclops has anything to give to him and his men.
- Odysseus wants to see if the Cyclops has anything to give to him and his men.
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