Question

read the excerpt from \a genetics of justice\ by julia alvarez. by the time my mother married my father, however, she knew all about the true nature of the dictatorship. thousands had lost their lives in failed attempts to return the country to democracy. family friends, whom she had assumed had dropped away of their own accord, turned out to have been disappeared. my father had been lucky. as a young man, he had narrowly escaped to canada after the plot he had participated in as a student failed. this was to be the first of two escapes. that same year, 1937, el generalísimo ordered the overnight slaughter of some eighteen thousand haitians, who had come across the border to work on sugarcane plantations for slave wages. which details does the author include to support the central idea about the result of the dictatorship? select two options. ☐ \lost their lives\ ☐ \family friends\ ☐ \lucky\ ☐ \escapes\ ☐ \slaughter\

Explanation:

To determine the details supporting the central idea about the dictatorship's result, we analyze each option:

• "lost their lives": The text says "Thousands had lost their lives in failed attempts...", showing casualties from the dictatorship.
• "family friends": This just names a group, not a result of the dictatorship.
• "lucky": Describes the father, not a result of the dictatorship.
• "escapes": The father's escape shows people trying to flee the dictatorship's consequences.
• "slaughter": "El Generalísimo ordered the overnight slaughter...", showing violence as a result.

We need two options. "lost their lives" and "slaughter" directly show negative results (deaths) from the dictatorship. "escapes" is about fleeing, but the question is about the result of the dictatorship (like deaths, violence). So the two best are "lost their lives" and "slaughter".

Answer:

A. "lost their lives", E. "slaughter"