Read the excerpt from part 3 of the odyssey by homer. so let me tell [circe’s] forecast: then we die with our eyes open, if we are going to die, or know what death we baffle if we can. sirens weaving a haunting song over the sea we are to shun, she said, and their green shore all sweet with clover; yet she urged that i alone should listen to their song. therefore you are to tie me up, tight as a splint, erect along the mast, lashed to the mast, and if i shout and beg to be untied, take more turns of the rope to muffle me.’ what conclusion about odysseus (the speaker) is best supported by the excerpt?

a)he trusts circe’s advice.
b)he remembers the sirens.
c)he questions his men’s strength.
d)he believes they will succeed.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant