<span>This is to persuade the gathering of people of the truth of the ghost that has showed up before Marcellus and Barnardo on two earlier evenings. He is the suspicious logician who does not trust in ghostly visions and unquestionably not in phantoms, and when he is persuaded that a heavenly being has appeared to him and his associates, the gathering of people is persuaded also.</span>
A. The speaker is saying that she and her peers should be allowed to handle the punishments for people like Hester Prynne. She thinks this because they would band together as a group and be all on the same page in their punishment, rather than leaving it up to the magistrate--whose punishment she does not think adequately fit the crime Hester committed.
B - not authentic; fake
Apocyphal is typically a story or statement that is false or made-up but widely believed to be true.
If this is referencing the Project, then this would be expository/non-fiction.
If this is referencing the film, then the genre is horror/fiction.
B) false :P
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