Remember the old people whose eyes seem like windows that peer into a distant past that makes absurdity of our contemporary world. that is what one feels when one encounters the old ones and their land, a pausing of time. which inference can you make based on this passage? a. the old people make time stand still with their eyes. b. the old people are haunting and frightening. c. the old people hold a special connection to the earth and the past. d. the old people are absurd in our contemporary world.

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. now zeus the lord of cloud roused in the north a storm against the ships, and driving veils of squall moved down like night on land and sea. the bows went plunging at the gust; sails cracked and lashed out strips 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 worn out and sick at heart, tasting our grief, until a third dawn came with ringlets shining. which key details should be included in a paraphrase of this passage? check all that apply. the storm was a direct result of zeus’s fury at the men. for two days and nights, zeus created a storm at sea. odysseus and his men feared greatly for their lives. the sails on the ship cracked in the heavy winds. the men felt grief as they lay offshore and waited