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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Mexico City, where Ines Amor organized an important exhibit.
(c) On a trip to Puerto Rico.
(d) In Germany.

2. Which best describes how Fuentes characterizes Frida's speech?
(a) Very Proper.
(b) Quirky.
(c) Often exaggerated.
(d) Frequently vulgar.

3. What does Lowe write happened in Kahlo's life just before beginning the Diary?
(a) Her house burned down.
(b) Diego had an affair with her aunt.
(c) Her father died.
(d) Her foot was amputated.

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

5. How does Lowe write that the text Kahlo includes in the images in her Diary affect the viewers understanding of the image?
(a) They generally are unrelated.
(b) They do not illuminate the meaning, but add to their complexity.
(c) For the most part, they are quotes from books.
(d) They frequently describe what is happening in the image, as in a retablo.

6. What is a retablo?
(a) A kind of poem.
(b) A colonial style table.
(c) A revolutionary song used to spread news.
(d) A painting.

7. In Frida's "Portrait of Neferunico," who does the portrait most resemble?
(a) Frida herself.
(b) Nefertiti.
(c) Jacqueline Lamba.
(d) Diego Rivera.

8. How does Lowe describe the act of reading Kahlo's diary?
(a) As an act that brings us closer to Kahlo's biography while offering us little or no insight into her work.
(b) As one of trangression, "charged with an element of voyerurism."
(c) As "an invariably voyeruristic act," which she remarks is often colored by a creul attraction to the suffering of others.
(d) As generally confusing given Kahlo's coded speech, and her frequent use of Surrealist games.

9. What does Kahlo liken to ink?
(a) Oil.
(b) Wine.
(c) Salsa.
(d) Blood.

10. How did Kahlo paint Dorothy Hale?
(a) After a bloody fight.
(b) In her own husband's embrace.
(c) Nude, in a lush landscape.
(d) Jumping from a building.

11. What characterizes the poems on the first several pages of the Diary?
(a) Rhymes.
(b) Colorful, erratic writing.
(c) Long strings of unrelated words.
(d) Aztec influences.

12. In a double (or triple) portrait, that Lowe writes recalls The Two Fridas, which of the following does Lowe write that Kahlo illustrates?
(a) The violence of birth and death.
(b) The strength of romantic life.
(c) The power struggle in a family.
(d) The stages of a woman's life.

13. What part of Mexico does Fuentes compare to Frida's body?
(a) It's art.
(b) It's wars.
(c) It's wounds.
(d) It's music.

14. What language does Frida write in (in what Lowe points out is the only time she cites a source other than herself)?
(a) Italian.
(b) French.
(c) English.
(d) German.

15. What are the carpas that Fuentes describes?
(a) Tents that were the stage for satire in proletariat "barrios."
(b) Layers of "resentimiento," or popular resentment as the ideals of the Revolution were touted as realized in government.
(c) A term for old neighborhoods, like Coyoacan, that were once separate from Mexico City, but became part of the city as it grew.
(d) A term for the typical cooking utensils that Adelitas, women who participated in the Revolution, typically carried on their backs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frida write on the page that she fills with faces in bubbles?

2. How does Lowe write that Frida's understanding of Communism changes?

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

4. Which of the following subjects does Frida mention in a letter to her husband in the Diary?

5. Who does Lowe write does Frida draw in the Diary and use in a painting titled Moses?

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