(the odyssey)
brainliest to whoever answers quick & !
what does penelope do to keep the suitors at bay for three years?
a)she invents contests that no one can win
b)she weaves a shroud for laertes and unweaves it at night.
c)she tells them they must wait for a sign from zeus,
d)she tells them they must wait for telemachus to grow a beard.

B) She weaves a shroud for Laertes and unweaves it at night.

Explanation:

In The Odyssey, In order to keep the suitors at bay for three years, Penelope weaves a shroud for Laertes and unweaves it at night. In the story, she pretends to be weaving a burial shroud for Laertes, Odysseus's father, and she claims that she will choose a suitor whenever she finishes.

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.