Why is penelope so cautious when confronted by odysseus after the massacre? a)she does not want to be deceived.
b) she is overcome with joy at seeing her husband.
c) he is covered in blood and she is frightened.
d) she has decided that she did not want odysseus to return home after all.

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. that strain again! it had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! now read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." for i have known them all already, known them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, i have measured out my life with coffee spoons; i know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room. what does the phrase "dying fall" most likely mean in both excerpts