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Match each word to its appropriate definition.(2 points) Put responses in the correct input to answer the question. Select a response, navigate to the desired input and insert the response. Responses can be selected and inserted using the space bar, enter key, left mouse button or touchpad. Responses can also be moved by dragging with a mouse. ardor sage contending prodigious foreboding The option "sound; fit" (5 of 8) has been selected. Press tab to choose a response area, and spacebar to insert it. Press escape to cancel.

ardor - passionate enthusiasm or zeal

sage - a wise person; someone who possesses wisdom and good judgment
contending - competing or fighting against someone or something
prodigious - remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree
foreboding - a feeling that something bad is going to happen; a sense of impending doom or disaster

Multiple Choice Choose the best answer for questions 9–19. Odyssey, Part 1 Which of the following flaws belongs to the character of Odysseus? (1 point) Responses arrogance, because he feels superior to his men arrogance, because he feels superior to his men ungratefulness, because he disregards his men’s sacrifice ungratefulness, because he disregards his men’s sacrifice cowardice, because he lies to the Cyclops about his identity cowardice, because he lies to the Cyclops about his identity recklessness, because he can’t help venturing into the Cyclops’ cave

recklessness, because he can't help venturing into the Cyclops' cave

Odyssey, Part 2 What is the effect of the epic simile in lines 118–131 of the Odyssey, Part 2? "Now, being a man, I could not help consenting. So I went down to the sea beach and the ship, where I found all my other men on board, 120 weeping, in despair along the benches. Sometimes in farmyards when the cows return well-fed from pasture to the barn, one sees the pens give way before the calves in tumult, breaking through to cluster about their mothers, 125 bumping together, bawling. Just that way my crew poured round me when they saw me come— their faces wet with tears as if they saw their homeland, and the crags of Ithaca, even the very town where they were born." (1 point) Responses to compare Odysseus's men to beasts to compare Odysseus's men to beasts to criticize Odysseus's men's lack of loyalty to criticize Odysseus's men's lack of loyalty to reveal Odysseus's hurry to go back and free his men to reveal Odysseus's hurry to go back and free his men to show how Odysseus's men depended on him

to show how Odysseus's men depended on him