The Odyssey: Writing a Character Analysis, Part 3 Answers

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Read the excerpt from Part 3 of The Odyssey by Homer.I made straight for the ship, roused up the men to get aboard and cast off at the stern. They scrambled to their places by the rowlocksand all in line dipped oars in the gray sea.

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enjoy their leisure time.
B
appreciate their jobs.
C
respect their leader.
D
forge close friendships.
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Which in-text citation is formatted correctly in MLA style?

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Odysseus’s men “bent steady to the oars,” Homer (79)
B
Odysseus’s men “bent steady to the oars” (Homer 79).
C
Odysseus’s men “bent steady to the oars.” (Homer 79).
D
Odysseus’s men “bent steady to the oars” (Homer) 79
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Read the excerpt from Part 2 of The Odyssey by Homer.We would entreat you, great Sir, have a carefor the gods' courtesy; Zeus will avenge the unoffending guest.'He answered thisfrom his brute chest, unmoved'You are a ninny,or else you come from the other end of nowhere,telling me, mind the gods! We Cyclopes care not a whistle for your thundering Zeusor all the gods in bliss; we have more force by far.

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by explaining his haphazard travels
B
by describing his loyalty to Zeus
C
by showing his physical weakness
D
by revealing his ignorant assumptions
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Which excerpt from Part 2 of The Odyssey is cited properly in MLA style?

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“Last of them all my ram, the leader, came, / weighted by wool and me with my meditations” (Homer 376-377).
B
“Last of them all my ram, the leader, came, / weighted by wool and me with my meditations.” Homer (376-377)
C
“Last of them all my ram, the leader, came, / weighted by wool and me with my meditations” Homer, (376-377).
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“Last of them all my ram, the leader, came, / weighted by wool and me with my meditations” (Homer 376-377)

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