B.
none of the others even sound right
1. A, capable of being carried
2. B, full of happiness
3. A, in a pattern
4. A, time
5. B, prefix is before root and suffix is after root
6. B, a subject and a predicate
7, 8, and 9. nothing is underlined.
10. B, a run-on sentence
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.
