Read the paragraph. Life is difficult for animal mothers in the wild. The mothers must provide food so their babies can grow up to be healthy. They must also defend their young like a boxer in the ring from other animals who want the babies for their next meal. Finally, they need to teach their young the skills they need to stay alive.

What is the meaning of defend their young like a boxer in a ring as it is used in the paragraph?

A remove

B coax

C distance

D protect

Read the passage below my men came pressing round me, pleading: 'why not take these cheeses, get them stowed, come back, throw open all the pens, and make a run for it? we'll drive the kids and lambs aboard. we say put out again on good salt water! ' ah, how sound that was! yet i refused. i wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer – no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends. -the odyssey, homer what inferences can be made about odysseus based on his choice to stay and see the cyclops? check all that apply. a. odysseus does not care about his crew. b. odysseus is curious about what the cyclops is like. c. odysseus wants to see if the cyclops will give him anything. d. odysseus is scared of the cyclops. e. odysseus needs to show who is in charge by not following what his men say.