“What did you catch today?” his wife inquired as she handed him some morsels of bread. The fisherman related the story of the remarkable talking fish.

“No fish and no wish? You threw away a lucky gift!” the wife scolded, her usual affectionate manner absent as she sent her husband back to ask for more food.
Why does the wife become angry with the fisherman?

A) He won’t go back to the ocean.
B) He did not ask the fish for help.
C) He has wished for the wrong food.
D) He can’t find the golden fish again.

What theme is best revealed by this conflict? a.)with cooperation, crews can defeat the gods. b.)dangerous ocean travel claims many lives. c.)rest is required for all who work hard. d.)people must respect the wrath of the gods. read the excerpt from part 1 of the odyssey. now zeus the lord of cloud roused in the north a storm against the ships and driving veils of the squall moved down like night on land and sea. the bows went plunging at the gust; sails cracked and lashed outstrips in the big wind. 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.

Which two sentences in this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich reflect the author's belief that russia's rising middle class was unable to express genuine emotion?

In the song mallam sile sings in lines 113 through 130 the knife probably represents