I think the answer is the reason for his absence is quite simple to understand.
Answer: A the computer revolution has given new meaning to old world
Explanation:
computers took the old world and changed it completely. you want to know a answer to something look what your doing looking it up. to me this is the only answer that would make since.
Hyperbole
this is because a hyperbole is used to dramatise something
Answer: A group of people with fairly similar political and religious beliefs
Answer:
At first, Odysseus and his men refrain from eating the cattle because they all swore an oath not to eat any cattle. The situation changed when they were on the island because they were starving and trapped there for a month. Don't forget that it was Eurylochus who convinced the men to eat the Cattle of the Sun: "it's better to die at sea from the wrath of the gods, he said than to die of hunger."
I hope that helps! If you need more contextual evidence, it should be in the book.