Read the passage from "Names/Nombres" by Julia Alvarez.By the time I was in high school, I was a popular kid, and it showed in my name. Friends called me Jules or Hey Jude, and once a group of troublemaking friends my mother forbade me to hang out with called me Alcatraz. I was Hoo-lee-tah only to Mami and Papi and uncles and aunts who came over to eat sancocho on Sunday afternoons – old world folk whom I would just as soon go back to where they came from and leave me to pursue whatever mischief I wanted to in America. JUDY ALCATRAZ, the name on the "Wanted" poster would read. Who would ever trace her to me?
Answer
A
popular culture and personal experiences
B
the author’s friends and family
C
important events and the author’s family
D
the author’s heritage and popular culture
Explanation
The passage shows how different people in the narrator’s life give her different names. Her friends call her “Jules,” “Hey Jude,” or “Alcatraz,” while her parents and relatives call her “Hoo-lee-tah.” This makes the author’s friends and family the influences on her name, so the best answer is “the author’s friends and family.”
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