Question

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.

Few words I shouted in reply to him:

‘If I could take your life I would and take
your time away, and hurl you down to hell!
The god of earthquake could not heal you there!'

At this he stretched his hands out in his darkness
toward the sky of stars, and prayed to Poseidon:

‘O hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands,
if I am thine indeed, and thou art father:
grant that Odysseus, raider of cities, never
see his home: Laertes' son, I mean,
who kept his hail on Ithaca.

Based on his response to the Cyclops, what can be inferred about Odysseus?

A.He has put himself and his men in even more danger.
B.He is a wise leader who will find a safe and quick route to Ithaca.
C.He has forgiven the Cyclops for eating his men.
D.He is a calm man who relies on reason rather than emotion.

Answer 1

Odysseus shows nothing wise in that response, quite the opposite. And for sure, no forgiveness in those words, either. Odysseus is angry and he wants to turn that anger into action, so he is not calm. With that, we eliminate options B, C and D.

In the end, we have the logical correct answer:

A.He has put himself and his men in even more danger.

His "speech" doesn't bring any solution, which endangers himself and his men.

By the time when Odysseus executes the cyclops, 10 years go by before he can return home. While on the voyage home, him and his men need to go to Hades's domain and they need to make it pass Polyphemus. Odysseus even gets caught on the island of where lived the witch Circe.

Answer 2

Based on Odysseus' response to the Cyclops, we can infer that he has put himself and his men in even more danger, as expressed in option A and explained below.

Who is Odysseus?

Odysseus or Ulysses is the main character in the epic poem "The Odyssey," by Homer. He is considered one of the most intelligent, wise men in Greece. However, as we can see in the passage, Odysseus makes mistakes as well.

After confronting and teasing the Cyclops (one-eyed monster), Odysseus and his men are now in even more danger than before. The Cyclops is a god's son, and he prays that his father keep Odysseus from ever arriving back home.

With the information above in mind, we can select option A as the correct answer.

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