Part A What can be inferred about the story adapted from Book IX from The Odyssey?

Odysseus does not want his men to rescue him.

Odysseus does not always have good judgment.

Odysseus does not have faith in his own escape plan.

Odysseus does not want to hurt the Cyclops.
Question 2
Part B

Which evidence from the story best supports the answer to Part A?

"As the last sheep went out, the fine ram concealing Odysseus, the Cyclops grabbed hold of the animal."

"In his rage, he ripped off the top of a mountain and hurled it toward the sound of Odysseus’s voice."

"The soldiers advised against this, but Odysseus insisted."

"Odysseus signaled for them to hush. He realized that they were still in range of the Cyclops’s hearing."

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator