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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 156 to 183.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Frida's students note about Frida's Spanish?
(a) They could never hear her.
(b) She enjoyed using double entendres.
(c) She had a uniqe way of speaking.
(d) She liked listening more than speaking.

2. Who did Frida write many letters to in the Diary?
(a) Diego Rivera.
(b) Dolores Olmedo.
(c) Juan Olmedo, her doctor.
(d) Ana Kahlo, her sister.

3. Who does Fuentes write is like Frida, "hiding her tortured body"?
(a) A broken Cleopatra.
(b) Maria Izquierdo.
(c) The Virgin of Guadalupe.
(d) Adelitas, women involved in the Mexican Revolution.

4. How does Frida describe "desire"?
(a) As "the one who gave birth to herself."
(b) As "communication from the gods."
(c) As "a dream we must attempt to prolong."
(d) As "what binds me to Diego."

5. How does Lowe describe Kahlo as a reader?
(a) She was a "voracious" reader.
(b) She did not read, but collected and flipped through inumerable art books.
(c) She was an "average reader," but enjoyed learning from other sources as well.
(d) She was more interested in learning from experts than reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Fuentes characterize the kinds of escapes from reality Andre Breton "was legislating as law" in France compared to Latin America?

2. What does Fuentes write happened in September of 1925 that changed Frida's life?

3. Who is Jose Guadalupe Posada?

4. What language does Frida write in (in what Lowe points out is the only time she cites a source other than herself)?

5. In Frida's "Portrait of Neferunico," who does the portrait most resemble?

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