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
Mark this and return
Which statement best analyzes how the author
develops the central idea across the paragraphs?

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

B. Alvarez describes how her family reacted to Trujillo's
demands and how that affected their lives when they
left the Dominican Republic.

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

D. O Alvarez describes how Trujillo's mandatory taxes and
tributes affected her mother in a negative way.