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
Julia feels like an outsider in her new culture.
B
Julia’s many names help her fit into both cultures..
C
Julia is having trouble with life in the US.
D
Julia’s Dominican culture was new to her friends.
Explanation
Julia has different names for different parts of her life: friends call her Jules, Hey Jude, or Alcatraz, while her Dominican family calls her Hoo-lee-tah. The passage shows that these names let her move between her American social life and her family’s Dominican culture. So the best choice is that Julia’s many names help her fit into both cultures.
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