The Odyssey: Writing a Character Analysis, Part 3 Answers

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Which MLA citations are properly cited? Check all that apply.

A
Odysseus’s men “went to sleep above the wash of ripples” (Homer 503).
B
Odysseus’s men “went to sleep above the wash of ripples.” (Homer 503)
C
Odysseus’s men “went to sleep above the wash of ripples” Homer (503).
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Homer writes that the men “went to sleep above the wash of ripples” (503).
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Homer writes that the men “went to sleep above the wash of ripples” (Homer 503).
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Which excerpt from Part 2 of The Odyssey is cited properly in MLA style?

A
“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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“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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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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Read the excerpt from Part 1 of The Odyssey by Homer.My home is on the peaked sea-mark of Ithacaunder Mount Neion's wind-blown robe of leaves, in sight of other islands—Dulichium, Same, wooded Zacynthus—Ithacabeing most lofty in that coastal sea,and northwest, while the rest lie east and south. A rocky isle, but good for a boy's training;I shall not see on earth a place more dear, though I have been detained long by Calypso

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wants to rule his native land.
B
is eager to leave his home.
C
misses his native land.
D
fears for the safety of his home.
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Read the excerpt from Part 3 of The Odyssey by Homer.so let me tell [Circe’s] forecast: then we diewith our eyes open, if we are going to die,or know what death we baffle if we can. Sirens weaving a haunting song over the seawe are to shun, she said, and their green shoreall sweet with clover; yet she urged that Ialone should listen to their song. Thereforeyou are to tie me up, tight as a splint, erect along the mast, lashed to the mast,and if I shout and beg to be untied,take more turns of the rope to muffle me.’

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He trusts Circe’s advice.
B
He remembers the Sirens.
C
He questions his men’s strength.
D
He believes they will succeed.
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isolation
B
violence
C
knowledge
D
honesty

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