I neither smoke nor drink is it a compound sentence

Read the excerpt from the odyssey then his chores being all dispatched she caught another brace of man to make his breakfast and whisk away his great door slab to let his sheep go through but he behind reset the stones as one would cap a quiver what two things are being compared in this epic simile

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How does bill safire depict mankind in his proposed speech? 1.adventurous and greedy 2.adventurous and determined 3.daring and invasive 4.timid and wary of loss