Question

I thanked him, and, turning from the main road, we entered a grass-grown by-path, which, in half an hour, nearly lost itself in a dense forest, clothing the base of a mountain.
In this sentence from the second paragraph of the passage, the phrase clothing the base of the mountain is used
A) to suggest that the mountain forest is impenetrable.
B) to suggest that the trees looked like clothes on the mountain.
C) to provide directions for the path through the mountain forest.
D) to describe the way that the trees surrounded the base of the mountain.

Answer 1

I believe it is D, it talks about how the forest is very dense and at the bottom of the mountain, therefore the trees are surrounding it

Answer 2

Answer: D) to describe the way that the trees surrounded the base of the mountain.

Explanation: This phrase is a metaphor comparing the way the forest covered the base of the mountain to the way that clothes cover a body.