Answer:
He has too much pride and confidence in his abilities.
Explanation:
Perseus as described in the excerpt was young, confident and proud being. The fact that he had nothing material to offer before the king but openly promised to bring be for the king Medusa's head was something no one but only a confident, and proud hero would pledge to deliver. Therefore, from the options given,
Option A is incorrect as the passage didn't talk about the beauty of the young man.
Though it was stated that he had nothing to give, but been poor and alone does not describe an heroic behavior.
Similarly, an unkept promise isn't an heroic quality.
Therefore, his pride and confidence are the heroic qualities Perseus demonstrated.
Answer:
Be wise
Explanation:
In order to gain respect of the people you have to be cruel enough to where they respect you but nice enough to where they do not hate you. If you were cruel everyone would hate you and you would probably get overthrown.
The answer is: figure out meaning based on what you already know and what the text says
To infer something from the passage, you need to read it and able to understand the meaning of the passage without actually put too much focus on the passage.
Passage inference could be considered as a reading skills. This usually tested when you do an SAT test to measure how much information you can gather from reading a certain text within a short period of time.