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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 108 to 131.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Frida admire, and write about in her diary?
(a) Juan Farill, her doctor.
(b) Franchesca, her neighbor.
(c) Francisco Madero, a revolutionary.
(d) Carlos Riviera, Diego's brother.

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

3. Who does Frida refer to with the signature "Yrenaica"?
(a) Irene, assistant to the President of Mexico.
(b) Yvette, her doctor's assistant.
(c) Yvette, a teacher from her childhood.
(d) Irene, a former assistant and lover to Diego Rivera.

4. Which of the following best describes the connection between entries in Frida's diary.
(a) They deal with the current trauma in her life.
(b) They are themed.
(c) There is little continuity.
(d) They show her maturing, over the course of about 15 years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frida label her own work in the Diary?

2. What is the first thing Frida mentions as having passed between 1950 and 1951?

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

4. Who does Frida credit with the fact that she is "no longer alone"?

5. How does Lowe describe the act of reading Kahlo's diary?

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