What evidence from the passage best supports the inference that her many names amuse Alvarez?

A. But at school I was Judy it Judith, and once and english teacher mistook me for Juliet.

B. It took me a while to get used to my new names

C. 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.

D. I laughed to myself, wondering which one I would go by.

D. I laughed to myself, wondering which one I would go by.

Explanation:

Ju lia Alvarez’s short story "Names Nombres," tells the story of her childhood when people used to mistake her name and call her by different names. Moving to New York from the Dominican Republic, her family encountered numerous instances of people mistaking their names a lot, which led to this piece of the short story.

In the story, Alvarez recounts how many people would mistake her for Ju liet, or even sometimes Ju les or Ju dith. And even her last name was called Alcatraz, leading Ju lia to really think about why it is that Americans find it hard to call them by their real names. But her ending statement "I laughed to myself, wondering which one I would go by" seems to infer that she finds it amusing. This statement shows that the many names that she had 'incurred' greatly amused her, even joking that she'd had to choose a name that she would go by when she become "well-known throughout the United States".

Thus, the correct answer is option D.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

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