Text interpretation: Josés, Marias and manias

Text interpretation, aimed at students in the fourth year of elementary school, with questions developed about the text: Josés, Marias and manias.

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Joses, Marias and manias

Dona Maria was full of manias. The neighbors called her Dona Maria. She had a habit of naming all her daughters after Maria: Maria José, Maria Beatriz, Maria Antônia...
The children were all José: José Maria, José Renato, José Antônio… Mrs. Maria had a mania for cleaning: I lived scrubbing the house, scrubbing the furniture, scrubbing the children's faces… And a mania for perfection… Ah! I remembered that I forgot something important. Have I told you that Dona Maria was… a marreca? So it is! This is the story of Dona Maria Marreco's family. Mr. José Marreco's wife. Dona Maria had the habit of wanting all the Marias and all the Josés to be the same way: polite, clean, responsible, obedient, quiet, intelligent and organized.

Maria Isabel and José Feliciano left her with her feathers standing on end. She was no use talking, fighting, screaming, punishing. And she ended up giving up, pretending that they weren't part of her Marys and Josephs. Until one day Maria Isabel and José Feliciano decided to put their sleeves out. They began to tease the brothers:
– What's the matter with you? Looks like a pile of flour from the same bag! You can't tell one grain from another,” Maria Isabel nudged.
- That's right! – amended José Feliciano. – Do you still remember your own name? Or did they all just become Joseph and Mary?
In the beginning, the brothers didn't even care. But Maria Isabel and José Feliciano criticized them so much that they ended up bothering them in some way.
– What's your whole name, Maria? asked a José.
– José Ricardo. Maria Lucia is a beautiful name!
– Thank you, José Ricardo!
When Maria Clara first appeared with a bracelet on her paw, everyone laughed:
– It looks like Maria Isabel's thing!
After a few days, Maria Silva invented a flower necklace and Maria Cláudia came up with a red ribbon on her head. José Carlos got a cap and José Getúlio created a very chic tie. And that was just the beginning. They relearned each other's names and began demanding that their parents call them by their full names. It was chaos. But slowly things began to fall into place. And, almost without realizing it, Dona Maria Marreco acquired a new mania: that of dialoguing. And what a hot craze!

Alina perlman
Publisher Scipione, São Pclass

Questions

1) What is the title of the text?
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2) What were Dona Marreca's quirks?
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3) Who left Marreca with feathers standing?
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4) What did Maria Isabel and José Feliciano do when putting their sleeves out?
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5) In her opinion, was it good for Dona Marreca's children to change their way of being? Because?
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6) The mother Marreca started to have a new craze. The one of dialoguing. And you, with whom do you most dialogue? Because?
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Per Camila Farias.

At answers are in the link above the header.

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