Question 7 of 10 • Summer School 26: Literature & Composition II
Read the excerpts from the beginning, middle, and end of "A Genetics of Justice” by Julia Alvarez.Passage A:Perhaps because I was spared, at ten, from the dictatorship my parents endured most of their lives, I often imagine what it must have been like for them growing up under the absolute rule of Generalísimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.Passage B:I knew very little about what was actually going on in the Dominican Republic. Whenever la situación on the island came up, my parents spoke in hushed voices.Passage C:Then I started to work on my second novel. My mother heard from one of my sisters that I was writing about the dictatorship. . . .. . . Days later, my mother called me up to tell me she had just finished the novel. "You put me back in those days. It was like I was reliving it all,” she said sobbing. "I don't care what happens to us! I'm so proud of you for writing this book.”
Answer
A
Alvarez shows how, throughout her life, she learned about the dictatorship from her parents' fear of and responses to it.
B
Alvarez wrote about life under the dictatorship, even though doing so ruined her relationship with her mother.
C
Alvarez shows how her lifelong fascination with her parents' life under the dictatorship was the basis for her writing.
D
Alvarez shows how her mother counted on her to someday write a novel about the dictatorship.