1. What does the narrator hope to learn
from Simon Wheeler? What does he
learn instead?

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)

no, i never do because that’s not the reason for what i speak to or of.