Text interpretation: Whoever tells a tale gets a point

Text interpretation, aimed at students in the fourth year of elementary school, with elaborate questions about the text: Whoever tells a story increases one point.

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Who tells a tale, earn a point

Zeca is a boy who lives in a city called Florópolis. One rainy day, when he was doodling in his father's newspaper, he read an ad about a short story contest and decided to participate in it.
– But I never wrote a short story!
She crossed her arms for a while without saying anything. He could have sworn that after so much thinking, smoke was coming out of his head. She thought, thought, thought and ended up writing on paper. Happily, he went to show his mother what she had written. She read it and tried to explain to Zeca that it wasn't a story, but a conversation between him and the paper, about her life. That short story had to have a little story, it had to have a character – people invented in the form of an animal or a person… or a plant, even any vehicle, as long as it had life. And a surprise ending, preferably.

– But I can't put this story in the contest?
– Power can. But it will be difficult to win the prize.
– I'll only know if I put it on, won't I?
And he did. According to the regulations, he knew that the result would come in three months, in December. She continued to live her life as a Floropolitan citizen, but anxiously controlling the calendar: she trusted the quality of her work. At least it had been done from the heart. When December arrived, Zeca was uneasy. Every day he looked in the newspapers for the result of the contest until one beautiful sunny Monday was very well written in the Diário de Florópilos: “Winners of the 1st National Contest of Tales Children". There were ten winners in all. He read the list four times and began to cry: there was no Zeca, no Zequinha, or Zé Carlos. The mother went shopping and Zeca went to the garden. He sat there for a long time, sitting on the grass, his face serious and his eyes sad, almost dripping. Until, little by little, these same eyes began to glow. Shine to the point where Zeca smiles and speaks out loud, for all Florópolis to hear:
- I will! I will write another one! With a story and everything! I had been in the mood for a while. When you start this writing and you like it, it seems that a rocket enters you and makes you want to pick up paper, pen and go around talking about everything.

Sergio Fonta

Questions

1) What is the title of the text?
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2) How did Zeca find out about the “1st National Contest of Children's Tales”?
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3) When Zeca asked if he could put his short story in the contest, what was the answer his mother gave?
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4) Did Zeca win the contest? What did he decide to do?
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5) In his place, would you do the same? Because?
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6) If you were to write a short story, what theme would you choose?
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Per Camila Farias.

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