Read this excerpt from the exposition in "The Monkey's Paw." Without the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlor of Lakesnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly What is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? O A. The house has a name, so it probably knows how to speak and make decisions O B. The weather is cold and wet, so the story is likely to be a comedy with a happy ending. O C. There is a fire burning to heat and light a house, so the story is likely set in the past O D. The parlor of the house is small, so the characters are prabably desperately poor.

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?