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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does "Xpcolatl" mean in Nahuatl?
(a) Roots.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) Paint.
(d) Corn.

3. What kinds of metaphors does Lowe write that Frida made frequent use of?
(a) Clouds and water.
(b) Leaves and branches.
(c) Veins and roots.
(d) Sexual metaphors.

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

5. What does Lowe write that "naturaleza muerta" translates to in English?
(a) "Natural death."
(b) "Nature in death."
(c) "Still life."
(d) "Day of the Dead altar."

6. Frida created an list of words beginning with the same letter. What letter did she use?
(a) M.
(b) A.
(c) X.
(d) C.

7. 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."

8. Lowe quotes Kahlo as writing that anguish and pain were both which of the following?
(a) Processes.
(b) Challenges.
(c) Never fully embraced.
(d) Necessary parts of life.

9. What does Frida label her cold climate image?
(a) Remote Snows.
(b) Snowy Diego.
(c) Arctic Foot.
(d) Polar landscape.

10. Who does Fuentes quote as having called pain "Dog"?
(a) Diego Rivera.
(b) Marx.
(c) Neitzsche.
(d) Engles.

11. What does Fuentes claim have been the worst traumas for Mexico?
(a) Sexism in the arts.
(b) The Hacendado's abuses of power.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Foreign interventions.

12. Who is Jaqueline Lamba?
(a) A famous chef.
(b) A poet.
(c) An Existential philosopher.
(d) A Surrealist painter.

13. Frida creates an image of herself falling apart from the top of a column. What does she label this image?
(a) The great fall.
(b) I am disintegration.
(c) The pain is overwhelming.
(d) Where is Diego?

14. Which of the following describe the mood of Frida's depiction of her animals.
(a) Sadistic.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Mournful.
(d) Playful.

15. What does Fuentes write that Frida experienced in a painting she created for the American Clare Booth Luce (which other Mexican artists also experienced when selling art to Americans)?
(a) Lack of payment.
(b) Unfair working conditions.
(c) Censorship.
(d) Misunderstandings about specifications.

Short Answer Questions

1. What obsession does Frida reveal in a long list?

2. Which of the following best describe Frida's feeling for her husband?

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

4. What figures can be found in the image that Frida labeled "Naturaleza bien muerta"?

5. Which of the following techniques does Lowe write that Kahlo used?

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