Present perfect and past simple tense exercises

Is the point in the oaqs method where you would you look for more information, a definition, or interpretation.

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

The essay sea stars by barbara hurd. what point is the author making by comparing a sea star missing an arm to a human losing a limb?