Read the excerpt from the odyssey. “stranger, you are no longer what you were just now! your cloak is new; even your skin! you are one of the gods who rule the sweep of heaven! be kind to us, we’ll make you fair oblation and gifts of hammered gold. have mercy on us! ” what is the symbolism of the new cloak in this excerpt? 1 .the new cloak represents odysseus’s love for his wife, penelope, and his grown son, telemachus. 2.the new cloak represents odysseus’s great wealth and successful journey. 3.the new cloak represents odysseus’s transformation from a weary traveler to the returning hero. 4.the new cloak represents odysseus’s changed character from innocent young man to power-hungry ruler.

Iwas conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, i felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths." what is meant by the term resolved as it is used in this sentence? a) determined b) questioning c) uneasy d) unsure

Which phrase best describes the role of irony in a written book? a. to validate readers’ beliefs b. to defy readers’ expectations c. to represent an idea d. to dramatize events apex

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion