Question

Read this excerpt from chapter 1 of The Scarlet Letter. Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-peru, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison. Which best describes the effect of the words “ugly,” “overgrown,” “pig-weed,” and “unsightly vegetation”? They impart an angry mood. They impart a mysterious mood. They establish a rural, agricultural setting. They establish a rough, untamed setting.

Answer 1

Dylanmcintyre20's answer is correct, D (I just took the test)

Answer 2

D.They establish a rough, untamed setting.