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 experiences 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:

The passage shows how Trujillo demanded tributes, the family's reactions, and how it led to the mother having to pay tribute. The first option correctly captures these elements about how the central idea is developed, including Trujillo's demands, the family's response, and the mother's turn to pay tribute. The other options focus on more specific aspects rather than the overall development across the paragraphs.

Answer:

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