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The Odyssey: Central Ideas and Character Motivation, Part 2 Answers

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Based on this excerpt, what inference can be made about Odysseus? Select two options.

A
Odysseus is a careless leader who does not care about the safety of his crew.
B
Odysseus’s curiosity about the Cyclops is stronger than his good judgment.
C
Odysseus wants to see if the Cyclops has anything to give to him and his men.
D
Odysseus is worried about appearing weak in front of his men.
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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.

A
the Cyclops has eaten another bunch of Odysseus’s men.
B
Odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave.
C
the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved by the giant Cyclops.
D
the Cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings.
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Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.As in a smithyone sees a white-hot axehead or an adzeplunged 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.

A
that the Cyclops only has one eye.
B
how brutal Odysseus and his men are.
C
the size of the wooden spear.
D
how hot the spear actually is.
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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 guestsunder your roof! Zeus and the gods have paid you!'

A
is fearful of the Cyclops.
B
is prideful and overly confident.
C
has been weakened by the Cyclops.
D
has regrets about staying on the island.
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Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.Neither reply nor pity came from him, but in one stride he clutched at my companions and caught two in his hands like squirming puppies to beat their brains out, spattering the floor.

A
how helpless Odysseus’s men are in the clutches of the Cyclops.
B
how violently and uncivilized the Cyclops behaves himself.
C
that Cyclops is enormous in comparison to Odysseus and his men.
D
that there is no possible escape for Odysseus and his men.
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Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.Here are the means I thought would serve my turn:a club, or staff, lay there along the fold—an olive tree, felled green and left to season for Cyclops' hand. And it was like a mast a lugger of twenty oars, broad in the beam—a deep-sea-going craft—might carry: so long, so big around, it seemed.

A
like a deep-sea-going ship or vessel
B
like an olive tree, just felled and still green
C
like the Cyclops, large and wide
D
like the mast of an enormously large ship
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Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.but Cyclops went on filling up his bellywith manflesh and great gulps of whey,then lay down like a mast among his sheep.

A
the Cyclops and the mast of a ship
B
the Cyclops’ belly and his sheep
C
manflesh and gulps of whey
D
a mast and a flock of sheep
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Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.As in a smithyone sees a white-hot axehead or an adzeplunged 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.

A
that the Cyclops only has one eye.
B
how brutal Odysseus and his men are.
C
the size of the wooden spear.
D
how hot the spear actually is.
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Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.Neither reply nor pity came from him, but in one stride he clutched at my companions and caught two in his hands like squirming puppies to beat their brains out, spattering the floor. Then he dismembered them and made his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion—everything: innards, flesh, and marrow bones.

A
He has gone hungry for a very long time.
B
He is savage and brutal like a wild animal.
C
He is terrified of Odysseus and his men.
D
He is very similar to his father, Poseidon.
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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.

A
the door slab to the Cyclops’ sheep
B
the stone to a quiver
C
a brace of men to breakfast
D
the Cyclops’ chores to the men

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