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Question 7 • CMS 2025-2026 English I CREDIT RECOVERY

Read the excerpt from Part 1 of The Odyssey by Homer. but on the spot I told them: 'Back, and quickly! Out to sea again!' My men were mutinous, fools, on stores of wine. Sheep after sheep they butchered by the surf, and shambling cattle, feasting,—while fugitives went inland, running to call to arms the main force of Cicones. How does this excerpt prove that Odysseus’s men caused their own problems?

Answer
A
by describing their neglect of orders
B
by showing their physical weaknesses
C
by illustrating their cruelty to one another
D
by explaining their military strategy
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