The answer is letter A. Macro
The answer to this question is B.
A dog can learn many new tricks if they are given proper training
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.
It could be 2 answers. Either 'In fact" or "In other words"
Pick the one that sounds better to you