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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. What does Lowe argue is Frida's overall feeling toward life?
(a) A feeling of pain and dispair.
(b) Worry over her husband.
(c) A sense of happiness and humor.
(d) An interest in professional advancement keeps her going through difficulty.

2. What does Lowe write is a "favorite device" of Frida's?
(a) "Spilling ink, then moving it around on the surface to create a Surrealist-style image."
(b) "Bringing interior physical forms to the surface, to show power relationships."
(c) "Having a friend begin an image and quickly finishing it, in an attempt to bypass the logical, thinking mind."
(d) "Ink strokes that form an undulating mesh of lines."

3. Who does Lowe write "cemented" the association of Frida and Surrealism?
(a) Andre Breton.
(b) Jose Vasconcelos.
(c) Jose Clemente Orozco.
(d) Diego Rivera.

4. In an image labeled "Dog," where does Frida place the dog?
(a) Jumping at the sight of a firework.
(b) In her garden.
(c) Around a man's neck.
(d) Swimming in a pond.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As her health began to decline, what kinds of images did Frida create fewer of?

2. Lowe quotes Kahlo as writing that anguish and pain were both which of the following?

3. What does Lowe claims motivate Kahlo's writing the Diary?

4. What civilizations does Lowe wright were part of Kahlo's understanding of her "personal past"?

5. What does Lowe notice about Kahlo's images of nude women?

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