I had to read the story and answer the questionss.. correct my answers? possibly mrs. sue! :DEpicfrom The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert FitzgeraldTwo nights, two days, in the solid deep-sea swellhe drifted, many times awaiting death,until with shining ringlets in the Eastthe dawn confirmed a third day, breaking clearover a high and windless sea; and mountinga rolling wave he caught a glimpse of land.What a dear welcome thing life seems to childrenwhose father, in the extremity, recoversafter some weakening and malignant illness:his pangs are gone, the gods have delivered him.So dear and welcome to Odysseusthe sight of land, of woodland, on that morning.It made him swim again, to get a footholdon solid ground. But when he came in earshothe heard the trampling roar of sea on rock,where combers, rising shoreward, thudded downon the sucking ebb-all sheeted with salt foam.Here were no coves or harborage or shelter,only steep headlands, rockfallen reefs and crags.Odysseus' knees grew slack, his heart faint,a heaviness came over him, and he said:"A cruel turn, this. Never had I thoughtto see this land, but Zeus has let me see it-and let me, too, traverse the Western Ocean-only to find no exit from these breakers.Here are sharp rocks off shore, and the sea a smotherrushing around them; rock face rising sheerfrom deep water; nowhere could I stand upon my two feet and fight free of the welter.No matter how I try it, the surf may throw meagainst the cliffside; no good fighting there.If I swim down the coast, outside the breakers,I may find shelving shore and quiet water-but what if another gale comes on to blow?Then I go cursing out to sea once more.Or then again, some shark of Amphitritê'smay hunt me, sent by the genius of the deep.I know how he who makes earth tremble hates me."During this meditation a heavy surgewas taking him, in fact, straight on the rocks.He had been flayed there, and his bones broken,had not gray-eyed Athena instructed him:he gripped a rock-ledge with both hands in passingand held on, groaning, as the surge went by,to keep clear of its breaking. Then the backwashhit him, ripping him under and far out.An octopus, when you drag one from his chamber,comes up with suckers full of tiny stones:Odysseus left the skin of his great handstorn on that rock-ledge as the wave submerged him.And now at last Odysseus would have perished,battered inhumanly, but he had the giftof self-possession from gray-eyed Athena.So, when the backwash spewed him up again,he swam out and along, and scanned the coastfor some landspit that made a breakwater.Lo and behold, the mouth of a calm riverat length came into view, with level shoresunbroken, free from rock, shielded from wind-by far the best place he had found.But as he felt the current flowing seawardhe prayed in his heart:"O hear me, lord of the stream:how sorely I depend upon your mercy!derelict as I am by the sea's anger.Is he not sacred, even to the gods,the wandering man who comes, as I have come,in weariness before your knees, your waters?Here is your servant; lord, have mercy on me."1. Before he sees land, Odysseus is adrift in the ocean for A. two weeks and two days. B. one month. C. two nights and two days. D. one weekC?2. The best place Odysseus finds to land is A. the edge of a beach. B. the mouth of a river. C. the entrance to a harbor. D. the side of a cliff.D?3.Why does Odysseus swim away from the shore at one point? A. to return to Troy B. to find Poseidon C. to find his raft D. to search for a safer place to landD?4. Odysseus would have died if he had not possessed A. self-control. B. self-pity. C. self-esteem. D. self-doubt.A?5. Odysseus bases his appeal to the lord of the stream on the rights of A. hosts. B. sailors. C. guests. D. heroes.B?