Read the excerpt below and answer the question. so he growled from his depths, hackles rising out their outrage. "bear up, old heart! you've borne worse, far worse, that day when the cyclops, man-mountain, bolted your hardy comrades down. but you held fast—" to what does this passage refer? athena is trying to keep odysseus from killing the suitors too soon. telemachus is trying to calm odysseus from attacking too soon. odysseus is restraining himself from killing the serving-women. odysseus is restraining himself from killing antinous.

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance