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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 84 to 107.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Carlos Fuentes first meet Frida?
(a) In the Palace of Fine Arts.
(b) At a Mexico City gallery called the Gallery of Mexican Art.
(c) In a restaurant called Sanborns.
(d) In the Alameda Park.

2. What story does Lowe liken Frida's childhood memory to?
(a) A German tale her father may have shared with her.
(b) A small story (in a single panel) of Diego Rivera's History of Mexico mural.
(c) Lewis Caroll's Alice.
(d) An Aztec birth myth.

3. What does Frida write "is the most ridiculous thing 'man' has"?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Art.
(c) Illness.
(d) Medicine.

4. What does Lowe write to explain the piece The Two Fridas, painted in 1939?
(a) Frida claimed that one was the sick Frida, while the other was the healthy Frida.
(b) Frida claimed that one was the Frida that her parents had longed for, the other the Frida who was an artist.
(c) Frida wrote that one was how Diego would have her be, while the other was who she was.
(d) Frida wrote that one of these was the Frida Diego loved, the other was the Frida that Diego once loved.

5. Who did Frida write many letters to in the Diary?
(a) Ana Kahlo, her sister.
(b) Juan Olmedo, her doctor.
(c) Diego Rivera.
(d) Dolores Olmedo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the images in the Diary does Frida later use for a formal painting?

2. Which of the following qualities does Lowe claim Frida shares with Surrealism?

3. What does Frida write is the most precious thing?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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