Answer:
Waverly "Meimei" Jong
Explanation:
The story is narrated by Waverly "Meimei" Jong, a Chinese American woman who recounts her childhood as a young Chinese daughter of immigrants growing up in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. Jong is named after the street where she lived in a flat above a Chinese bakery, but she is known as Meimei, meaning ‘Little Sister’.
You need to take the main parts out of the excerpt to figure out what the excerpt is trying to teach you as the reader. After you determine that you must figure out what the main idea is and the topic of the excerpt.
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Answer:
B. Pip was how he pronounced his first and last names as a child.
Explanation:
This is what the narrator says:
"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue <u>could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. </u>So, <u>I called myself Pip</u>, and came to be called Pip."
