Answer:
Mia wants to<u> ignore</u> the boy, so she talks to Olivia about the contest. He asks if Mia will bring a dish that he assumes is from her <u>culture</u>. Mia <u>changes his opinion</u>.
Explanation:
From the passage, we discover that in order to ignore the boy's question, Mia changed the subject of discussion. She brought up the topic of the contest in order not to answer the question of the boy.
When the boy asks of chop suey, he was actually referring to a dish from Mia's culture. But Mia went ahead to change the boy's opinion about the dish by telling him that the dish was actually invented in United States.
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