Book 23 - The Trunk of the Olive Tree

Question 1

Major Characters

Answer 1

Odysseus talking to Penelope

Question 2

Setting

Answer 2

Dining hall

Question 3

Passage

Answer 3

Woman, by heaven you’ve stung me now! Who dared to move my bed? No builder had the skill for that - unless a god came down to turn the trick. No mortal in his best days could budge it with a crowbar. There is our pact and pledge, our secret sign, built into that bed - my handiwork and no one else’s!