{"id":4155,"date":"2020-06-29T11:08:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T11:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/?post_type=mcq&#038;p=4155"},"modified":"2026-06-21T04:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:07:10","slug":"his-work-seems-to-be-a-penelopes-web","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/his-work-seems-to-be-a-penelopes-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaning of a Penelope&#8217;s Web"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the sentence, what does <strong>a Penelope&#8217;s web<\/strong> mean?<br>His work seems to be <strong>a Penelope\u2019s web<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>difficult<\/li>\n<li>endless<\/li>\n<li>declining<\/li>\n<li>in his best form<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3137],"subject":[3116],"education_level":[1896],"class_list":["post-4155","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-endless-tasks","subject-idioms-phrases","education_level-hsc"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>endless<\/strong> is correct because <strong>a Penelope's web<\/strong> means a task or work that seems endless because it is repeatedly undone or never finished.<\/p><p>This idiom or phrase is useful because it helps students understand the intended meaning beyond the individual words.<\/p><p><strong>Examples:<\/strong> <em>The repairs became a Penelope&#x27;s web because each fix created another problem.<\/em> <em>For some students, rewriting the report felt like a Penelope&#x27;s web.<\/em><\/p><p>The idiom emphasizes never-ending work, not simply difficulty or decline.<\/p>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"difficult"},{"right":"yes","answer":"endless"},{"right":"no","answer":"declining"},{"right":"no","answer":"in his best form"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3116,"title":"Idioms &amp; Phrases","slug":"idioms-phrases"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3137,"title":"Endless Tasks","slug":"endless-tasks"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/4155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}