Which clues? They aren’t listed.
B. you need to brainstorm to generate ideas about the topic of the speech.
A. a legal code was written by him
I believe the answer would be A. If the question is ‘from what line from the article does the author reveal how she would like others to respond to her lack of hearing?’ Then the answer would be A. She says that she ‘hated to be seen as inferior’ this suggests that the way she would like to see others respond is, not by acting like she is inferior, but acting as if she were any other person.