Read the excerpt from "a genetics of justice” by julia alvarez. images of the dictator hung in every house next to the crucifix and ia virgencita with the declaration beneath: in this house trujillo is chief. the pale face of a young military man wearing a plumed bicorne hat and a gold­braided uniform looked down beneficently at my mother as she read her romantic novelas and dreamed of meeting the great love of her life. sometimes in her daydreams, her great love wore the handsome young dictator’s face. never having seen him, my mother could not know the portrait was heavily retouched. which quotation provides the best evidence for the central idea of this excerpt? “in this house trujillo is chief.” “the pale face of a young military man wearing a plumed bicorne hat and a gold­braided uniform looked down beneficently at my mother.” “sometimes in her daydreams, her great love wore the handsome young dictator's face.” “never having seen him, my mother could not know the portrait was heavily retouched.”

The central idea of the excerpt is "“Never having seen him, my mother could not know the portrait was heavily retouched.”  Because the excerpt starts by talking about the dictator we can infer that the central idea is based on the dictator, rather than the mother. The dictator is clearly an influential person in "A Genetics of Justice" by Julia Alvarez as the excerpt states his image his hung in every house. The mother had never actually seen the dictator, but yet he had control over many aspects of her life and even entered into her daydreams. The retouching of the dictator in the photo might be referring to something beyond the portrait.

The correct answer is C. Never having seen him, my mother could not know the portrait was heavily retouched.

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closer examination, however, finds the mcdonald's kind of job highly uneducational in several ways. far from providing opportunities for entrepreneurship (the lemonade stand) or self- discipline, self-supervision, and self-scheduling (the paper route), most teen jobs these days are highly structured — what social scientists call “highly routinized.”  

true, you still have to have the gumption to get yourself over to the hamburger stand, but once you don the prescribed uniform, your task is spelled out in minute detail.