Names/Nombres

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.

• they were addressed by only their last name.

• they began to call each other by different nicknames.

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

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Julia was given her first name in honor of

• her mother.

• her father's mother.

• grandmother.

• her aunty.

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When other students called Julia "Jules" or "Hey Jude", she took this as a sign that her classmates ...

• were teasing & bullying her.

• didn't know her name.

• dislike Hispanic names.

• were showing their affection for her.

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When Julia told people that she was from New York City, she was

• just joking.

• deliberately lying.

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

• lying without realizing it.

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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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Later, she tells her classmates to call her "Judy."

This shows...

• She just wanted to fit in as a teenager.

• Judy is her official name.

• She prefers the name Judy to Julie.

• She wants to stand out in class.

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"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Why is this applicable to Julia's experiences in the United States?

• Names aren't important.

• Julia prefers to be called by different names at different times.

• Julia's name remains the same throughout the story.

• No matter what she is called, or how her name is pronounced, she remains who she is.

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

• it was the same as her mother's name.

• she was embarrassed by it.

• it was too long to write.

• no one pronounced it correctly.

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