Question 3 • CMS 2025-2026 English I CREDIT RECOVERY
Read the passage from The Odyssey - Penelope . Ruses serve my turn to draw the time out—first a close-grained web I had the happy thought to set up weaving on my big loom in the hall. I said, that day: 'Young men—my suitors, now my lord is dead let me finish my weaving before I marry, or else my thread will have been spun in vain. It is a shroud I weave for Lord Laertes when cold Death comes to lay him on his bier. The country wives would hold me in dishonor if he, with all his fortune, lay unshrouded.' I reached their hearts that way, and they agreed. So every day I wove on the great loom, but every night by torchlight I unwove it; and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians. Which line from the passage best shows that Penelope is clever?
Answer
A
I had the happy thought to set up weaving
B
The country wives would hold me in dishonor
C
So every day I wove on the great loom
D
and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians
Explanation
The line “and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians” shows that Penelope’s plan worked for a long time. She cleverly pretended to weave Laertes’s shroud by day and secretly unraveled it at night, delaying the suitors. Choice A mentions her idea, but D best shows the success of her cleverness.
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