The Odyssey and Epic Poetry: An Introduction, Part 1 — Unit test

Question 13 • AZ-English Language Arts 9 A-CR

Which excerpt from The Odyssey best shows Odysseus demonstrating the epic hero traits of strength and leadership?

Answer

This was an army, trained to fight on horseback or, where the ground required, on foot. They came with dawn over that terrain like the leavesand blades of spring. So doom appeared to us, dark word of Zeus for us, our evil days.

We saw death in that fury, dropped the yards, unshipped the oars, and pulled for the nearest lee: then two long days and nights we lay offshore worn out and sick at heart, tasting our grief, until a third Dawn came with ringlets shining.

We stopped to take on water. All ships' companiesmustered alongside for the mid-day meal.Then I sent out two picked men and a runnerto learn what race of men that land sustained. They fell in, soon enough, with Lotus-Eaters,

I drove them, all three wailing, to the ships, tied them down under their rowing benches, and called the rest: ‘All hands aboard; come, clear the beach and no one tastethe Lotus, or you lose your hope of home.’

Explanation

In choice D, Odysseus uses strength by driving the three men back to the ships and tying them down. He shows leadership by ordering his crew aboard and warning them not to eat the lotus so they can continue their journey home. The other excerpts describe events or actions without showing this combination of strength and leadership.

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