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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following qualities does Lowe claim Frida shares with Surrealism?
(a) A love of the grotesque.
(b) An interest in the subconscious.
(c) A fascination with pain.
(d) An interest in romance.

3. What does Frida write on the page that she fills with faces in bubbles?
(a) "You can't take them anywhere."
(b) "How ugly people are!"
(c) "Must stay separate."
(d) "Not a friendly face in the crowd!"

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) Diego Rivera.
(d) Her sister, Matilda.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What style does Fuentes claim was "in tune with the tastes of the Mexican elite" around the turn of the century?

2. What does Frida label her cold climate image?

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

4. How does Lowe write that the text Kahlo includes in the images in her Diary affect the viewers understanding of the image?

5. Frida creates an image of herself falling apart from the top of a column. What does she label this image?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Frida claim she was born in 1910?

2. What device does Lowe claim that Frida frequently uses? (She uses this for human forms, roots, and other organic figures.)

3. How does Lowe believe that Frida's Diary differs from most artist sketchbooks?

4. On what kind of body does Frida create a two-headed bull figure?

5. How does Fuentes characterize Frida's depiction of pain?

6. What physical changes does Lowe write that the Diary documented?

7. What is automatic drawing?

8. What figures are included in Frida's "connect-the-dot" drawing?

9. How does Fuentes describe the relationship between Kahlo's art and Surrealism?

10. What is in the image that Frida labels "The Phenomenon Unforseen"?

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