Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice” by Julia Alvarez.

Question

By the time my mother married my father, however, she knew all about the true nature of the dictatorship. Thousands had lost their lives in failed attempts to return the country to democracy. Family friends, whom she had assumed had dropped away of their own accord, turned out to have been disappeared. My father had been lucky. As a young man, he had narrowly escaped to Canada after the plot he had participated in as a student failed. This was to be the first of two escapes. That same year, 1937, El Generalísimo ordered the overnight slaughter of some eighteen thousand Haitians, who had come across the border to work on sugarcane plantations for slave wages.

Which details does the author include to support the central idea about the result of the dictatorship? Select two options.

“lost their lives”
“family friends”
“lucky”
“escapes”
“slaughter”

Answer 1

The two details that support the central idea about the result of the dictatorship are:

1. “lost their lives” – This detail highlights the extreme consequences of the dictatorship, emphasizing the loss of life as a direct result of the oppressive regime.

2. “slaughter” – This term specifically refers to the mass killing of Haitians ordered by the dictator, illustrating the brutality and violence associated with the dictatorship.

These details reinforce the idea that the dictatorship resulted in significant suffering and devastation.