Question

read the excerpt from a genetics of justice by julia alvarez. politically, trujillo would demand a tribute, and they came in all shapes and sizes, 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 parade went on for hours in the hot sun until my mother. which statement best analyzes how the author develops the central idea across the paragraph? alvarez traces how trujillo demanded the tributes, how her family reacted, and how it was finally her mothers turn to pay tribute. alvarez describes how her family reacted to trujillos demands and how that affected their lives and led them to leave the dominican republic. alvarez retells her mothers humiliating experience of paying tribute to a dictator she did not support. alvarez describes how trujillos mandatory tributes affected her mother in a negative way.

Explanation:

The passage focuses on Trujillo's tribute - demands and how it affected the author's family, especially her mother. The first option best captures the overall development of the central idea as it traces Trujillo's demands, family reactions, and the specific instance of the mother's turn to pay tribute. The other options are either too narrow (focusing only on the mother's humiliation or the family's reaction in a more general sense) or do not fully cover the sequence of events related to the tribute - demands.

Answer:

Alvarez traces how Trujillo demanded the tributes, how her family reacted, and how it was finally her mother's turn to pay tribute.