Which statement best explains why the animals readily accept the increased workload? They think that the harder they work, the more rations they will receive from their leaders, the pigs. They believe that all of their work benefits the community of animals and ultimately is for the best. They have been told that they will be able to sleep in beds like the pigs if they continue to work hard. They think that by working hard they will demonstrate that they are better and more deserving than the pigs.

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that— they cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus men. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved my the giant cyclops the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings