Answer: C) when the surrounding words are unfamiliar.
Explanation: context clues are hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word within a book. The clue may appear within the same sentence as the word to which it refers or it may follow in the next sentence. They can be synonyms, definitions, explanations, etc. When we found a word or phrase that we don't understand, and all the surrounding words are also unfamiliar, we should refer to a dictionary to be able to understand the text.
He is captured by a colonel who is son of Don Lupe that was killed by Juvencio. When some men are trampling on his small property he goes out to tell them not to do that when he is captured. He doesn't want to die and he says that he is not a threat to anybody because he is too old then the colonel tells his men to get Juvencio drunk.
