What conclusion about Odysseus (the speaker) is best
supported by the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Part 3 of The Odyssey, by Homer.
so let me tell [Circe's] forecast: then we die
with our eyes open, if we are going to die,
or know what death we baffle if we can. Sirens
weaving a haunting song over the sea
we are to shun, she said, and their green shore
all sweet with clover, yet she urged that I
alone should listen to their song. Therefore
you are to tie me up, tight as a splint,
erect along the mast, lashed to the mast,
and if I shout and beg to be untied,
take more turns of the rope to muffle me.
He trusts Circe's advice.
He remembers the Sirens.
0 He questions his men's strength,
He believes they will succeed.