Excerpt from The Rainbow, Chapter X (excerpt) D. H. Lawrence
Then there was an outcry. Mrs. Brangwen would not have it; no, she would not All her innate dignity and standoffishness rose
up. Then there was the vicar lecturing the school. It was a sad thing that the boys of Cossethay could not behave more like
gentlemen to the girls of Cossethay. Indeed, what kind of boy was it that should set upon a girl, and kick her, and beat her, and
tear her pinafore? That boy deserved severe castigation, and the name of coward, for no boy who was not a coward-etc., etc.
From the textual evidence provided in this paragraph, what conclusions can the reader draw regarding the vicar?
A)
He favors boys over girls.
B)
He has no strong feelings.
He supports Mrs. Brangwen's perspective entirely.
D)
He tends to be indulgent towards children's misbehavior.

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?