The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B. Part A Which inference can be...

The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B.
Part A
Which inference can be made about the author of Doubly Denied?
A. The author relied on the support of her friends to keep her dream of becoming a writer alive.
B. The author continued to believe in her own potential as a writer even after experiencing rejection.
C. The author was nearly derailed from her dream of becoming a writer by a lack of confidence.
D. The author was motivated to become a writer to prove wrong the people who rejected her.
Part B
Which quotation from Doubly Denied best supports the answer to Part A?
A. Would I actually write books? That seemed like a wild, far-off dream.
B. I could have interpreted the rejection as the universe's way of telling me that I should find something else to do.
C. I don’t remember how the news was delivered, but when it came, I do remember feeling that I had been punched in the gut.
D. But although I was devastated (I wrote entry after tearful journal entry about it), I was stubborn, too.