I got several wallets and a suitcase with my initials and a graduation charm from my godmother and money from my uncles. The biggest gift was a portable typewriter from my parents for writing my stories and poems.

Someday, the family predicted, my name would be well-known throughout the United States. I laughed to myself, wondering which one I would go by.

-"Names/Nombres,"

Julia Alvarez

Based on this passage, which inference could you make about how Julia's family influences her?

They want Julia to become a serious student.

They pressure Julia to be rich and famous.

They encourage Julia's writing talent.

They make her choose a name.

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Hope Valdez

2 September, 23:31

I got several wallets and a suitcase with my initials and a graduation charm from my godmother and money from my uncles. The biggest gift was a portable typewriter from my parents for writing my stories and poems.

Someday, the family predicted, my name would be well-known throughout the United States. I laughed to myself, wondering which one I would go by.

-"Names/Nombres,"

Julia Alvarez

Based on this passage, which inference could you make about how Julia's family influences her?

They want Julia to become a serious student.

They pressure Julia to be rich and famous.

They encourage Julia's writing talent.

They make her choose a name.

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Marilyn Johns · Answer 1

They encouraged her writing as they gave her a typewriter to succeed and said that she would be great in the future

Joel English · Answer 2

They encourage Julia's writing talent.

This is demonstrated when her parents gifted her a typewriter for "writing my stories and poems" and her family "predicted my name would be well-known throughout the United States."