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A By the time Mitzie and B myself got to the box office, C all of the tickets for the show had already D been sold. E No error
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* (A)
* (B)
* (C)
* (D)
* (E)

Here's the College Board explanation:

The error in this sentence occurs at (B), where there is improper pronoun use. The reflexive pronoun “myself” is used incorrectly. The first-person singular pronoun “I” is needed instead so that the sentence communicates clearly that two people “got to the box office.” (“Mitzie...got to the box office” and “I got to the box office”)

But it doesn't help much to say that "myself" is wrong so that the sentence would communicate clearly that two people got to the box office.
The reason "myself" is wrong is that the reflexive (myself, yourself, himself, herself, ourselves, themselves) is used when the person performing the action (the subject) is the same as the person on whom the action is performed (the direct object).

Correct:
I shave myself.
He saw himself.
They shave themselves.

If the subject and direct object are not the same, don't use the reflexive.

Correct:
I saw him.
The barber shaved me. (not myself)
By the time I dragged myself out of bed...
I was so tired my mother had to pull me out of bed.

Wrong:
By the time Mitzie and myself got to the box office...
By the time I dragged me out of bed...
I was so tired my mother had to pull myself out of bed.

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