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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. 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.

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

3. What figure does Lowe believe is depicted in flames in Frida's image labeled "Footprints and sunprints"?
(a) A burning building.
(b) A burnt cast.
(c) A phoenix.
(d) A barbecue.

4. 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) The great fall.
(c) Where is Diego?
(d) I am disintegration.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Lowe write "cemented" the association of Frida and Surrealism?

2. What story does Lowe liken Frida's childhood memory to?

3. What object in one of her paintings is explained in Kahlo's letter to Lamba?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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