Question 1 (2 points) the speaker describes the relationship between himself and his lover by saying:

a) he always loved her.
b) sometimes he loved her, and sometime she loved him.
c) they never really loved each other.
d) she loved him, but he never loved her.

question 2 (2 points) the speaker describes nights that he held her in his arms and kissed her under a sky.

a) endless.
b) deadly.
c) gray.
d) depressing.

question 3 (2 points) the speaker describes the night as immense, but that it is more immense without her. what does “immense” mean?

a) depressing.
b) large or great in scale.
c) deadly and destructive.
d) supernatural.

question 4 (2 points) why can the speaker write the saddest lines tonight?

a) he misses his family, which makes it easier for him to write.
b) he is thinking of the night sky.
c) he is examining the night sky.
b) he’s had some time and distance from a love he once had, which makes it easier for him to write.

question 5 (2 points) the speaker describes love as short, and forgetting as

a) useless.
b) important.
c) long.
d) upsetting.

Select the correct text in the passage. which part of this excerpt from homer's odyssey uses an epic simile? the king himself the vases ranged with care; then bade his followers to the feast prepare. a victim ox beneath the sacred hand of great alcinous falls, and stains the sand. to jove the eternal (power above all powers! who wings the winds, and darkens heaven with showers) the flames ascend: till evening they prolong the rites, more sacred made by heavenly song; for in the midst, with public honours graced, thy lyre divine, demodocus! was placed. all, but ulysses, heard with fix'd delight; he sate, and eyed the sun, and wish’d the night; slow seem’d the sun to move, the hours to roll, his native home deep-imaged in his soul. as the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, sees with delight the sun's declining ray, when home with feeble knees he bends his way to late repast (the day's hard labour done); so to ulysses welcome set the sun; then instant to alcinous and the rest (the scherian states) he turn’d, and thus address'd: "o thou, the first in merit and command! and you the peers and princes of the land! may every joy be yours! nor this the least, when due libation shall have crown'd the feast,