Question

Which three parts of this excerpt from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “the house of seven gables” provide direct characterization?

Answer 1

2, 4, and 5 have to be the answer by process of elimination

Edit: 4 "he followed out his original design," is incorrect but 2 "Endowed with commonsense, as massive and hard as blocks of granite" and 5 "On the score of delicacy, or any scrupulousness which a finer sensibility might have taught him, the Colonel, like most of his breed and generation, was impenetrable." are.