Read the passage from "Names/Nombres" by Julia Alvarez.
When we moved into our new apartment building, the super called my father Mister Alberase, and the neighbors who became mother's friends pronounced her name Jewlee-ah instead of Hoo-lee-ah. I, her namesake, was known as Hoo-lee-tah at home. But at school I was Judy or Judith, and once an English teacher mistook me for Juliet.
Based on this passage, what inference can be made about the English teacher?
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Julia Alvarez was a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Alvarez was born in New York but spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic until her family had to flee the country due to her father’s involvement in a political rebellion. Much of Alvarez’s work focuses on her experiences as a Dominican inthe United States. In this essay, Alvarez discusses the multiple names she has been given over the years.When they arrived in New York City, their names changed almost immediately. At Immigration, the officer asked her father, Mister Elbures, if he had anything to declare.
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Answer: She did not pay attention to Julia´s real name .
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