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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Jose Guadalupe Posada?
2. What does Frida label her cold climate image?
3. What did Frida's students note about Frida's Spanish?
4. What does Lowe write about Frida's relationships with women?
5. What pets does Lowe mentioned Frida keeps?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Lowe compare Kahlo's diary with "diarists, both men and women [who] have chronicled their lives framed by their times or by particular historical events"?
2. How does Lowe describe Frida's relationship with Surrealism?
3. What figures are included in Frida's "connect-the-dot" drawing?
4. In what ways does Fuentes write that Kahlo mirrors the Revolution in her art?
5. What characterized Frida's "poetry"?
6. Who does Kahlo write a "melancholy" letter to in her Diary?
7. How does Frida begin her diary?
8. Why does Lowe claim that Frida included a bride in her painting The Bride Who Becomes Frightened When She Sees Life Open?
9. What are some of the external sources that Fuentes finds for Kahlo's art?
10. In Frida's first string of words, which one is the one that Lowe singles out as the only word with a specific reference?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Frida paints death, writes of a friend's death, and of her own future death. Lowe notes that in one entry, she even paints herself "in the same position [as a skeleton] but in reverse, as the figure on the previous page. The two even share a shattered arm." What role does death in general play in the Diary? What does the Diary help us to understand about Frida's understanding of death?
Essay Topic 2
Frida paints her dog, Mr. Xolotl, deer, and other animals in the Diary. What can be said of her depictions of animals? What can be said of her relationship with animals in general? How does this relationship compare with her relationship with other people?
Essay Topic 3
Fuentes writes that Frida was a member of the Communist party from an early age, but that her "politics, such as they were, could not be separated from the personality and the actions of Diego Rivera." Lowe writes that she understood Communism in a religious way. Based on both the text and images in her Diary, how do you think that Frida understood Communism?
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