My men came pressing round me, pleading: '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. -The Odyssey, Homer What inferences can be made about Odysseus based on his choice to stay and see the Cyclops? Check all that apply. Odysseus does not care about his crew. Odysseus is curious about what the Cyclops is like. Odysseus wants to see if the Cyclops will give him anything. Odysseus is scared of the Cyclops. Odysseus needs to show who is in charge by not following what his men say.

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme