Question

What does this excerpt from Book 21 of Homer's Odyssey reveal about Ulysses’s wife, Penelope?

Answer 1

It shows how shows that she begins to suspect that the beggar is Odysseus.  By using the bow, she knows that only he can string and shoot an arrow through the rings effortlessly. This was later proven when she moved the bed.  She is indeed a match for Odysseus in the end.