Read the following passage and answer the question.

now go match that, you young pups, and straightaway
i'll hurl you another just as far, i swear, or even farther!
all the rest of you, anyone with the spine and spirit,
step right up and try me – you've incensed me so.
who is speaking in the passage above?

telemachus
laodamas
odysseus
alcinous

Study the editorial cartoon mars probe by mike keefe. how does the alien with the baseball bat contribute to the effectiveness of the political cartoon? it suggests that aliens are like people because they play baseball, a human sport. it uses humor to show that unknown factors keep damaging the probes humans send. it shows how to cope with the surface of mars, which is rocky and full of craters. it exaggerates the size of the bat in relation to the mars probe in the cartoon.