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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 33 to 57.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following subjects does Frida mention in a letter to her husband in the Diary?
(a) Dollhouses.
(b) Food.
(c) The Day of the Dead.
(d) Color.

2. What "path" does Lowe write that Frida illuminates in this Diary?
(a) "The artist's path."
(b) "The path toward love."
(c) "The path toward death."
(d) "The path of a consummate artist."

3. How does Fuentes characterize the kinds of escapes from reality Andre Breton "was legislating as law" in France compared to Latin America?
(a) As "the law of life."
(b) As "unlikely to ever take hold."
(c) As "needlessly ritualistic."
(d) As "small beer, comparatively speaking."

4. Who does Frida address an eight page letter to in the Diary?
(a) Her father, though he died years earlier.
(b) Jose Clemente Orozco.
(c) Her sister, Matilda.
(d) Diego Rivera.

5. How does Lowe write that students remembered Frida?
(a) Always interested in romance.
(b) Always curious about life.
(c) Full of vulgarity.
(d) Full of vitality.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Frida's "portrait of Nefertidos," which cultures does Frida combine?

2. How does Fuentes compare the bloodshed of the Mexican Revolution and the "executions ordered by Hitler and Stalin"?

3. Who does Fuentes quote as having called pain "Dog"?

4. What does Lowe write about Frida's relationships with women?

5. What does "Xpcolatl" mean in Nahuatl?

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