Based on the epic simile, how should the reader picture the beam of wood Odysseus found in the cave? like a deep-sea-going ship or vessel
like an olive tree, just felled and still green
like the Cyclops, large and wide
like the mast of an enormously large ship

The lines from the epic '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. ' suggests that the size of the beam is enormous as that of a ship. Thus the correct option is D

Explanation:

if this is a true or false question its true

the right ones are in bold.

daintly refers to the fact she was reaching for what she ate, not necessarily what she is like.

greatest charm as in she possessed (=had) the greatest charm.

pleasant (her demeanor)

speaking (of her sensibility)

dead refers to the hypothetical mouse.

bleeding refers to the hypothetical mouse.