Question

Question 5 Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)

[MC]
The House of the Seven Gables, an excerpt
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thus the great house was built. Familiar as it stands in the writer's recollection,-for it has been an object of curiosity with him from boyhood, both as a specimen of the best and stateliest architecture
of a longpast epoch, and as the scene of events more full of human interest, perhaps, than those of a gray feudal castle,-familiar as it stands, in its rusty old age, it is therefore only the more difficult to
imagine the bright novelty with which it first caught the sunshine.
What does the author suggest is difficult to imagine about the house?
Its inhabitants from long ago
Its long gone occupants and visitors
The nature of how it has aged
The way it looked when it was new

Answer 1

The way it looked when it was new is the correct answer.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the excerpt, the author mentions that the house is "familiar" to him and that it has been an object of curiosity for him since he was a boy. He also mentions that it is "difficult to imagine the bright novelty with which it first caught the sunshine," suggesting that it is difficult to imagine how the house looked when it was new and first caught the sunshine. The other answer choices do not accurately reflect what the author suggests is difficult to imagine about the house.