Question

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

Answer 1

“Sometimes in her daydreams, her great love wore the handsome young dictator’s face.”

This excerpt is all about the dictator and how the author’s mother loved him.

Answer 2

Answer:

“Never having seen him, my mother could not know the portrait was heavily retouched.”

Explanation:

The central idea of ​​the text is to inform how the dictator had control over people's lives. Based on this, we can conclude that the citation that provides the best evidence for the central idea of ​​this passage is "Never having seen him, my mother could not know the portrait was heavily retouched." Because it shows that even though the narrator's mother never had seen the dictator, or know that the portrait she has of him has been retouched several times, she keeps the dictator as an authority and a leader in her home and her life.