Okay, an antecedent of a pronoun is always a noun, so immediately you can reject the words late and wandered as incorrect answers, because late is an adjective, and wandered is a verb. This leaves us with two nouns, guests and party. Obviously, the pronoun several refers to the noun guests, so the correct answer is guests - that is the antecedent that corresponds with the pronoun. Several guests, not several parties.
Faith seems quite lonesome and sad, wishing for her loved husband to stay with her. And Goodman Brown seems very devoted to wherever he is going, and assures his wife she doesn't need to doubt him for he would be back soon. I hope this helps!
in third person omniscient narration the narrator has a gods eye view of the story and is privy to all characters thoughts as well as knowledge of the past and future. Then there's third person limited when the narrators innately tied to it then that's how you will know.
