Question

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.

Answer 1

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.”

Answer 2

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