Researching and Writing about a Mythical Character — Unit test

Question 43 • Common Core ELA 9 - ELA3009 A-IC

Which excerpt from The Odyssey best demonstrates the importance of perseverance in Greek society?

Answer

Long ships with good stout planks athwart—would fighters rig themto ride the barren sea, except for hunger?

“I learnedto keep my head in hardship—years of warand years at sea. Let this new trial come.”

The young men, afterward,hunted wild goats with him, and hare, and deer, but he had grown old in his master's absence.

No man of woman born could work these wondersby his own craft, unless a god came into it with ease to turn him young or old at will.

Explanation

The excerpt in B directly describes enduring hardship: the speaker has faced years of war and travel at sea, then accepts another trial. That willingness to keep going despite difficulties demonstrates perseverance. The other excerpts focus on ships, hunting, or godlike power rather than persistence through hardship.

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