Read the excerpt from the odyssey.
then we unloaded all the cyclops' flock to make division, share and share alike, only my fighters voted that my ram, the prize of all, should go to me. i slew him by the sea side and burnt his long thighbones to zeus beyond the stormcloud, cronus’ son, who rules the world. but zeus disdained my offering; destruction for my ships he had in store and death for those who sailed them, my companions.
what can be inferred about odysseus?
a. odysseus believes that he controls his own destiny.
b. odysseus is destined to perish at sea along with his men.
c. odysseus is religious and he believes in the power of the gods.
d. odysseus believes that he can escape his destiny.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.