Question

Northup implies that his wife is _____ when he describes her, “the blood of three races mingles in her veins . . . the union of them all, however . . . has given her a singular but pleasing expression, such as is rarely to be seen.” beautiful plain ugly common

Answer 1

The answer is beautiful.

Step-by-step explanation:

If we paraphrase this description, we could say that her exotic origin ( the combination of three races) gives her unique, pleasing expression. Northup does not use direct adjectives but describes her beauty indirectly.

Other possibilities (plain, ugly and common) do not fit in the given portrayal, so that leaves us with beautiful as the closest representation.