She could not believe that such a violent (or vile) act would be committed.
Pap is a drunk and is careless.
Why is he a drunk, because he gets "drunk as a fiddler".
Why is he careless, because that does not sound very safe to "clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stanchion". Also he sounds kind of dumb to sell a coat for forty-rod whisky to get drunk. "traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod".
A. <em>using good judgment</em>
C. <em>being cautious</em>
E. <em>ensuring appropriateness</em>
The correct answers are He wants revenge for the loss of his eye and He is angered by Odysseus' taunts.
Polyphemus is a cyclopes. He is also son of Poseidon.
One night, Odysseus and his men found themselves stuck in a cave with the cyclopes (which are one-eyed, men-eating giants) and decided to blind him in order to escape. They got him drunk and with using a sharp-pointed stick they stuck it in his eye, plucking it out.
