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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?
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

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i think the answer is D
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