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Setting and Character in Dragonwings

Question 2 • SS26 - ERWC, Semester 2 CR

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.
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