Question

which sentence from the passage is the best evidence that the narrator understands why his mother is taking the cooking class?
\mom had a photo on her desk me on the pitchers mound, throwing a fastball.\
\working together we cut some flowers and leaves out of the dough and plopped them onto the pie.\
\hey, mom? i was thinking maybe you could bake a pie for the team next week?\
\but she was working on that pie crust just as hard as id worked to master my pitches.\

Explanation:

This sentence draws a parallel between the mother's effort in her cooking class (working on the pie crust) and the narrator's effort to master his baseball pitches, showing the narrator recognizes his mother is putting in dedicated work to improve, just as he did for his sport—demonstrating he understands her motivation for the class. The other options do not connect to showing understanding of her cooking class purpose.

Answer:

"But she was working on that pie crust just as hard as I'd worked to master my pitches."