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Excerpt from "Straw into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday" by Sandra Cisneros

$(1)$ When I was living in an artists' colony in the south of France, some fellow Latin$-$Americans who taught at the university in Aix$-$en$-$Provence invited me to share a home$-$cooked meal with them. $(2)$ I had been living abroad almost a year then on an NEA grant, subsisting mainly on French bread and lentils while in France so that my money could last longer. $(3)$ So when the invitation to dinner arrived, I accepted without hesitation.

$(4)$ Especially since they had promised Mexican food.

$(5)$ What I didn't realize when they made this invitation was that I was supposed to be involved in preparing this meal. $(6)$ I guess they assumed I knew how to cook Mexican food because I was Mexican. $(7)$ They wanted specifically tortillas, though I$\text{'}$d never made a tortilla in my life.

$(8)$ It's true I had witnessed my mother rolling the little armies of dough into perfect circles, but my mother's family is from Guanajuato, provinciales, country folk. $(9)$ They only know how to make flour tortillas. $(10)$ My father's family, on the other hand, is chilango, from Mexico City. $(11)$ We ate corn tortillas but we didn't make them. $(12)$ Someone was sent to the corner tortilleria to buy some. $(13)$ I$\text{'}$d never seen anybody make corn tortillas. $(14)$ Ever.

Which of the following explains why the speaker accepted the dinner invitation?

A She did not wish to offend her hosts.

B She was eager to make tortillas for the meal.

C She hoped to make new friends while living abroad.

D She had been living on bread and beans for nearly a year.