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Omeros True or False

1. Who's the hater in this scenario: "The lance of his hatred entered her with no sound,/yet she came and lay next to him, and they lay quietly/as two logs laid parallel on moonlit sand"? -> Achille
2. Who says, "We helped ourselves/to these green islands like olives from a saucer,/munched on the pith, then spat their sucked stones on a plate,/like a melon's black seeds," and what are they referring to? -> Major Plunkett, referring to British colonialism
3. Who are the "bearded elders" here: "The bearded elders endured the decimation/of their tribe without uttering a syllable/of that language they had uttered as one nation"? -> The trees on St. Lucia
4. Who is the "her" in this quote: "How many young Redcoats had died/for her? How many leaves had caught yellow fever/from that lemon dress?" -> Helen the island and the woman
5. Who is so torn that they say, "Half of me was with him. One half with the midshipman/by a Dutch canal. But now, neither was happier/or unhappier than the other"? -> The Narrator

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