Question

read the excerpt from \a genetics of justice\ by julia alvarez. periodically, trujillo would demand a tribute, and they would acquiesce. a tax, a dummy vote, a portrait on the wall. to my father and other men in the country, the most humiliating of these tributes was the occasional parade in which women were made to march and turn their heads and acknowledge the great man as they passed the review stand. if you did not march, your cédula would not be stamped, and without a stamped identification card, you could do nothing; in particular, you could not obtain your passport to leave the country under the pretext of wanting to study heart surgery. this was the second escape—this time with his whole family—that my father was planning. the day came when my mother had to march. the which statement best analyzes how the author develops the central idea across the paragraphs? ○ alvarez traces how trujillo demanded the tributes, how her family reacted, and how it was finally her mother’s turn to pay tribute. ○ alvarez describes how her family reacted to trujillo’s demands and how that affected their lives when they left the dominican republic. ○ alvarez retells her mother’s humiliating experience of paying tribute to a dictator she did not support. ○ alvarez describes how trujillo’s mandatory taxes and tributes affected her mother in a negative way.

Explanation:

1. Analyze Option A: The excerpt focuses on the mother's experience of the parade tribute, not just tracing tributes generally or the family's reaction to all tributes. So A is incorrect.
2. Analyze Option B: The excerpt is about the family's experience in the Dominican Republic, not when they left. So B is incorrect.
3. Analyze Option C: The excerpt describes the mother having to march (pay tribute) to Trujillo, a dictator she likely didn't support (given the context of the family planning to escape), and this was a humiliating experience. This matches the content of the excerpt.
4. Analyze Option D: The excerpt's main focus is the mother's experience with the parade tribute, not mandatory taxes. So D is incorrect.

Answer:

C. Alvarez retells her mother’s humiliating experience of paying tribute to a dictator she did not support.