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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Carolina want to get Vera for her birthday?
(a) Stockings.
(b) Gloves.
(c) Socks.
(d) Shoes.

2. What date does Carolina celebrate as the Day of Abolition?
(a) June 15th.
(b) May 13th.
(c) June 1st.
(d) May 20th.

3. What is Carolina's profession?
(a) Baker.
(b) Paper collector.
(c) Judge.
(d) Seamstress.

4. What are Carolina's boys eating when she gets home on May 21st?
(a) Meat.
(b) Soup.
(c) Bread.
(d) Macaroni.

5. Which police station number does Carlona go to in 1958?
(a) Station 7.
(b) Station 12.
(c) Station 20.
(d) Station 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Carolina's identification card number?

2. Who makes the teeter-totter for Carolina's children?

3. Who tries to sell Carolina bananas and lettuce?

4. What does Carolina bring to the Negress's house?

5. What is the name of the country Carolina and her family live in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Carolina not accept Senhor Manuel's proposal?

2. What does Carolina think of people who live along the riverbank?

3. According to the first entry, describe Vera.

4. What does Carolina think of crime?

5. Why are Carolina's children often unhappy with their food?

6. Why are Carolina's sacks of paper burned at the end of her 1955 entry?

7. List four of the foods Carolina most commonly buys with the money she earns.

8. Why do women in the favela "collect men?"

9. What are the politicians of Brazil like around the year 1955?

10. Why is Carolina afraid to eat from the garbage?

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