Which event best illustrates a positive cultural value of odysseus's homeland of ithaca
a. soldiers sailing on dangerous seas
b. lotus-eaters pursuing and easy care free life
c. ody. expecting great respect as a guest in a foreign land
d. cyclops living off their sheep and untamed land

C. Odysseus expecting great respect as a guest in a foreign land.

This best illustrates a positive cultural value of Odysseus's homeland of Ithaca.

This was evident when Ithaca still made Penelope's suitors welcome despite their unruly and ungainly behavior.

These questions belong to the short story "The Moment when the Gun Went Off" written by Nadine Gordimer. The setting of the story is Africa in the years previous to the fall of the Apartheid.

The correct answers are the following:

The most ironic thing about Van der Vyver's reaction to the death of the young black boy is his emotional breakdown and tears after telling what happened.The sentence that best describes the irony is: "Van der Vyver is not a typical South African farmer; he feels remorse and takes responsibility for the accident."This represents a situational irony. Situational irony occurs when something completely unexpected and contrary to what was expected happens.The word referred to is "callously" and it means heartlessly.The statement "Over-using to be verbs can weaken a sentence" is true.