Ihave a serious but not so smart of a question!

if you are an emkay fan, you know that the intros are almost all the same. "hello! welcome back to emkay my name " damien or zach. what is up with this? i need answers! i get angy!

In the context of the passage, what does the word torpid mean? b. predatory a. energetic c. dormant d. aquatic

Twenty years gone, and i am back again on my own island. as for my change of skin, that is a charm athena, hope of soldiers, uses as she will; she has the knack to make me seem a beggar man sometimes and sometimes young, with finer clothes about me. it is no hard thing for the gods of heaven to glorify a man or bring him low. —the odyssey, homer based on what odysseus says in the passage, what has he learned? humans can become like gods. humans are under the gods’ control. humans can change from beggars to soldiers.

What is the meaning of the word checking as it is used in this sentence from the second paragraph of the passage?