Read the excerpt below and answer the question. so he growled from his depths, hackles rising out their outrage. "bear up, old heart! you've borne worse, far worse, that day when the cyclops, man-mountain, bolted your hardy comrades down. but you held fast—" to what does this passage refer? athena is trying to keep odysseus from killing the suitors too soon. telemachus is trying to calm odysseus from attacking too soon. odysseus is restraining himself from killing the serving-women. odysseus is restraining himself from killing antinous.

It is not B or C. I can tell you that for sure because I'm doing the homework too.

the present continuous is a verb tense which is mainly used to indicates that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking.  

it is formed using: person + verb to be (am/is/are) +verb + - ing form  

example: i am studying at this moment .

in addition, the present continuous is also used in order to express things that will or will not happen in the near future.

example: i am having dinner with some friends tonight.

the speaker sometimes   uses it   to express that an action is repeated and it causes irritation on the part of the speaker

example: my sister is constantly complaining about everything.