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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essay by Sarah M. Lowe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Fuentes compare the bloodshed of the Mexican Revolution and the "executions ordered by Hitler and Stalin"?
(a) As "on par."
(b) As "globally less important."
(c) As "small beer."
(d) As "more frequently over looked by historians, but no less important."

2. How does Lowe describe Frida's planning of the paintings in her Diary?
(a) They were unplanned.
(b) They were, themselves, used to plan more formal paintings.
(c) They were meticulously planned.
(d) They were planned in writing.

3. How does Lowe explain that reading the Diary may affect our viewing of Kahlo's paintings?
(a) We may understand just how much Frida lived in her husband's shadow.
(b) We may see Frida as more human.
(c) We may understand how physical pain limited Frida.
(d) We may begin to grasp how much time Frida spent alone, and why she painted self-portraits.

4. Where does Lowe write that Frida's work was first taken seriously (where she "made a decisive shift from amateur to professional painter")?
(a) In the United States.
(b) In Germany.
(c) In Mexico City, where Ines Amor organized an important exhibit.
(d) On a trip to Puerto Rico.

5. Where did Carlos Fuentes first meet Frida?
(a) In the Alameda Park.
(b) At a Mexico City gallery called the Gallery of Mexican Art.
(c) In the Palace of Fine Arts.
(d) In a restaurant called Sanborns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fuentes cite Virgina Woolf as writing on pain?

2. What aspect of Rembrandt and Van Gogh's work does Lowe compare to Kahlo's?

3. What does Lowe claim was the guiding principal behind Surrealism?

4. What line of work was Frida's father in?

5. What movement has Frida been associated with?

(see the answer key)

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