Read each passage. Then, answer the questions. Which word best describes Odysseus in the first passage? Which word best describes Odysseus in the second passage? Which step in the hero’s journey is reflected by Odysseus’s behavior in the second passage?

But as I sent them on toward Scylla, I

told them nothing, as they could do nothing.

They would have dropped their oars again, in panic,

to roll for cover under the decking. Circe's

bidding against arms had slipped my mind,

so I tied on my cuirass and took up

two heavy spears, then made my way along

to the foredeck – thinking to see her first from there,

the monster of the grey rock, harboring

torment for my friends.

—The Odyssey,
Homer

Now from his breast into his eyes the ache

of longing mounted, and he wept at last,

his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms,

longed for

            as the sunwarmed earth is longed for
by a swimmer

spent in rough water where his ship went down

under Poseidon’s blows, gale winds and tons of
sea.

—The Odyssey,
Homer