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Adverse Selection problem

I have a problem in economics on Adverse Selection problem. Please help me in the following question. When Sally Sleaze sells Terry Tonedeaf a low quality boom-box by advertising it as ‘top of the line’, there is a trouble of: (i) Irrational ignorance. (ii) Moral hazard. (iii) Adverse selection. (iv) Paradoxical value.

Select the rightmost option from the above.

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