Question

Read the excerpt from The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The room itself is cobwebbed, and dingy with old paint; its floor is strewn with gray sand, in a fashion that has elsewhere fallen into long disuse…

Which of the following best summarizes the excerpt?



The room is fashionably dirty.


The room has a lot of cobwebs.


The room is old, dirty, and unused.


The room has a floor made of sand.

Answer 1

The answer is "The room is old, dirty, and unused."

Answer 2

The room is old, dirty, and unused

Step-by-step explanation:

All the adjectives used to describe the room find their synonims in this option, for example:

old: old paint

dirty: cobwebbed

unused: long disuse