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10. Read the following passage from the Odyssey:
Tell me, where was it, now, you left your ship—
around the point, or down the shore, I wonder?

He thought he’d find out, but I saw through this,
and answered with ready lie:
Poseidon Lord, who sets the earth a-tremble,
broke it up on the rocks at your land’s end.
A wind from seaward served him, drove us there.
We are survivors, these good men and I.
From this passage, the reader is most likely to determine that (1 point)
Odysseus is not easily fooled.
the men will escape from the Cyclops’ cave.
the Cyclops is not very intelligent.
the Cyclops plans to keep the men as his prisoners.

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A. Odysseus is not easily fooled

Odysseus does not want the Cyclops to get his hands on his ship, so he lies that it was ruined when they arrived. When he says "I saw through this" it means he sees through the Cyclops' attempt to trick Odysseus into telling him where his ship is.