Question

read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt helps readers understand that the cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus’s men. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved by the giant cyclops. the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings.

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze the epic simile: "he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver." A quiver is capped easily and routinely. So the simile shows the Cyclops moves the giant stone (to block the cave) easily and routinely, matching option C. Other options: A is wrong (the excerpt is about resetting the stone, not eating men); B is wrong (the men want to escape, so not still trapped in a way the simile shows); D is wrong (the simile is about resetting the stone, not taking sheep out).

Answer:

C. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved by the giant Cyclops