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Which excerpt from The Odyssey best demonstrates the importance of perseverance in Greek society?

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Long ships with good stout planks athwart—would fighters rig themto ride the barren sea, except for hunger?
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“I learnedto keep my head in hardship—years of warand years at sea. Let this new trial come.”
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The young men, afterward,hunted wild goats with him, and hare, and deer, but he had grown old in his master's absence.
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No man of woman born could work these wondersby his own craft, unless a god came into it with ease to turn him young or old at will.
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Rachel is making predictions about The Odyssey as she reads this excerpt.So she described it, sitting in her chamberamong her maids—while her true lord was eating. Then she called in the forester and said:“Go to that man on my behalf, Eumaeus,and send him here, so I can greet and question him. Abroad in the great world, he may have heard rumors about Odysseus—may have known him!”

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he may have heard/ rumors about Odysseus
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sitting in her chamber/ among her maids
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Then she called in the forester
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Abroad in the great world
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Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.The noble and enduring man replied:“No god. Why take me for a god? No, no.I am that father whom your boyhood lackedand suffered pain for lack of. I am he.”Held back too long, the tears ran down his cheeksas he embraced his son.

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Telemachus will imitate Odysseus.
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Telemachus will reject Odysseus.
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Telemachus and Odysseus will fight to the death.
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Telemachus and Odysseus will work together.
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A value is important to a society because it is

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the measure used to determine how good a person is.
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an amount of goods or services considered reasonable.
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a human characteristic that is considered desirable.
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the financial cost of an item, which is very important.

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