Read the excerpt from the odyssey.

here are the means i thought would serve my turn:

a club, or staff, lay there along the fold—
an olive tree, felled green and left to season
for cyclops' hand. and it was like a mast
a lugger of twenty oars, broad in the beam—
a deep-sea-going craft—might carry:
so long, so big around, it seemed.

based on the epic simile, how should the reader picture the beam of wood odysseus found in the cave?

a: like a deep-sea-going ship or vessel
b : like an olive tree, just felled and still green
c: like the cyclops, large and wide
d: like the mast of an enormously large ship

On november 17, 1968, football fans across the united states sat glued to their televisions. a close game between two top teams—the new york jets and the oakland raiders—was being broadcast. when the jets pulled ahead with only fifty seconds remaining, viewers went wild. but then, just as the raiders were bringing the ball across midfield, the game disappeared from the screen! in its place, a previously scheduled children's movie, heidi, started playing. callers flooded the tv network's phone lines, but it was too late. the raiders scored two touchdowns in the very final moments—touchdowns that were unseen by all but west coast viewers. as a result of the interrupted event, dubbed "the heidi game," television networks began delaying their regularly scheduled programs until football games had ended.