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 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 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 1: The excerpt doesn't focus on tracing the order of tributes (tax, dummy vote, portrait, parade) and then mother's turn. It's more about the impact on the mother. So this is incorrect.
2. Analyze Option 2: The excerpt doesn't discuss their lives after leaving the Dominican Republic. It's about the situation before the escape, specifically the mother's experience with the tribute. So this is incorrect.
3. Analyze Option 3: The excerpt's main focus in the given paragraphs is on the mother's humiliating experience of having to march (pay tribute) to Trujillo, whom she didn't support, as shown by the details of the parade and the consequences of not marching. This option accurately captures how the author develops the central idea (the impact of Trujillo's tributes, especially on the mother) across the paragraphs.
4. Analyze Option 4: The excerpt is not mainly about taxes but about the parade tribute and its impact on the mother. The tax is just one of the tributes mentioned briefly, and the main focus is the mother's experience with the parade, not just the negative impact of taxes and tributes in general. So this is incorrect.

Answer:

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