The odyssey: central ideas and character motivation, part 2

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what motivates odysseus to tell a lie to the cyclops?

read the excerpt from the odyssey.

'my ship?

tremble,

poseidon lord, who sets the earth a-tremble,

broke it up on the rocks at your land's end.

a wind from seaward served him, drove us there.

we are survivors, these good men and i.

odysseus knows that poseidon is the cyclops' father.

odysseus is afraid the cyclops will steal their ship.

odysseus does not want to reveal their only means of

escape.

odysseus does not know what has happened to his ship.

odysseus does

Based on your knowledge of word parts what does the word intervene mean

Read this passage: byron and mitch are co-captains of the mathletes, their high school's academic team. they are backstage with the five other team members, preparing to compete in the state math quiz. byron sits on the floor with his eyes closed and his earbuds in, listening to classical jazz, which him focus his mind and energy. suddenly, he feels a presence beside him. he opens his eyes to see mitch staring at him. "mathletes! mathletes! " mitch chants loudly. mitch gives byron a thumbs-up and then proceeds to strut around like a peacock, high-fiving the other team members, as byron shuts his eyes again and does his best to refocus his mind which statement best summarizes the passage?

Part b: which phrase from the text best support the answers to part a? a. “i don't want to talk to somebody when i go check in at an airport. i just either download the boarding pass to my phone or walk up to a kiosk and get it.” (paragraph 8) b. “you do not have to go far to find someone who disagrees with andrew mcafee, just around the corner to the office of another person at the same university.” (paragraph 11) c. “the set of things that machines do not do like humans is innumerable.” (paragraph 16) d. “you wonder if you're joining that long litany of voices who go down as having made the incorrect prediction one more time, but i think the facts are different this time.” (paragraph 23)