"Names / Nombres" TEST

When Julia says, "When we arrived in New York City, our names changed almost immediately," she means that

• nobody even bothered to try to say their names correctly at immigration.

• the family members were addressed by only their last name.

• the family members immediately began to call each other by different nicknames.

• the family changed its last name to one that sounded more American.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Julia was given her first name in honor of

• her mother.

• her father's mother.

• grandmother.

• her aunty.

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

When other students called Julia "Jules" or "Hey Jude", she took this as a sign of her fellow students' ...

• bullying and teasing her.

• inability to pronounce anything correctly

• dislike of Hispanic names.

• affection for her.

Because of her foreign-sounding name, people would often ask Julia where she was from. When Julia told people that she was from New York City, she was. . .

• just joking with them to try to get a reaction.

• deliberately lying because she was insulted.

• actually telling the truth, because she was born there.

• afraid to tell the truth because she did not want to be deported.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

You can tell from this story that after graduation, Julia's family expected her to

• marry immediately and have children.

• get a job to support her enormous Dominican family.

• achieve success as a writer.

• return to the Dominican Republic.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

In the middle of the essay, Julia tells her classmates to call her "Judy."

This shows...

• She just wanted to fit in as a teenager.

• Judy is her official name, now.

• She prefers the name Judy to Julia.

• She wants to stand out in class.

When Julia was in high school, she...

• no longer spoke Spanish with anyone
• wished her friends would use her correct Dominican name
• liked having a complicated foreign name
• preferred to be known by her American nicknames

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CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Julia did not like telling her classmates she was from the Dominican Republic because...

• everyone thought it was part of Puerto Rico

• she could not remember anything about the country

• the name of the country was hard to pronounce

• it made her feel like an outsider

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When she first came back to America, the author had a problem with her name because...

• it was the same as her mother's

• her teachers asked her to change it to make it easier on them.

• it was too long to write

• barely anyone pronounced it correctly

In high school, Julia can BEST be described as

• popular and well-like by her peers

• forceful about keeping her culture

• miserable and bullied

• mysterious

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CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3