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61. What is this paragraph about?
(A) Colonialism in Africa
(B) Plantations in the United States
(C) The development of agriculture in Brazil
(D)
Slavery in Brazil
62. According to the article, the death of many slaves was due to
(A) the war in North America
(B)
the lack of food
(C) the heat
(D) the dangerous trip from Africa

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■ SAT II Subject Tests
63. According to the author
(A)
Brazil had more slaves than the United States
(B) the slaves worked in factories
(C) the majority of slaves lived with their families
(D) the slaves married Brazilians
64. According to historians, Brazil was one of the last countries to abolish slavery because
(A) it had more plantations than other countries
(B) it had a strong reform movement
(C)
it didn’t have a public press
(D) the slaves revolted
65. According to the article, Brazil
(A)
depended on slave labor
(B) wanted to abolish slavery earlier
(C) couldn’t import slaves after 1800
(D) paid attention to public opinion
And one day she appeared again. When he heard that someone called him, he turned around and
encountered her. It was exactly eight years since he had seen her.
She had large brown eyes and wore her hair—brown also—below the shoulders with bangs. Her
features reminded him of Italian Renaissance portraits.
—How well you look! You haven’t changed a bit—he said. It was the month of May and they
were in an art gallery in New York.
—It’s just that my changes don’t show.
He had left Manhattan a little after having seen her for the last time, because her husband, a
prominent literary critic, had been offered a chair in a university in the northern part of the state.
—Are you visiting the city? he asked her.
—Yes. For a few days—she replied and approached him.—And you Mike? How is your life?
—I’m married, I have two children, and I work in a bank—he said.
—A bank?
His wife came from a family of bankers.
—Yes. I write their monthly bulletin.
The last time that they had seen each other Mike’s greatest desire had been to become a playwright.
He had never wanted to look for a steady job because, according to him, he needed time to write.
—Do you like it?
—Of course not.
Eight years ago, when they were both single, they had spoken of how wonderful it would be to have
children. He thought about how marvelous it would be and he wanted to; but the idea horrifed her.