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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 33 to 57.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lowe quotes Kahlo as writing that anguish and pain were both which of the following?
(a) Necessary parts of life.
(b) Challenges.
(c) Never fully embraced.
(d) Processes.

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

3. What "path" does Lowe write that Frida illuminates in this Diary?
(a) "The artist's path."
(b) "The path toward love."
(c) "The path toward death."
(d) "The path of a consummate artist."

4. Who is the Olmedo that Kahlo refers to in the first few pages of her poem?
(a) Francisco Olmedo, a boyfriend from her youth.
(b) Dolores Olmedo, a friend.
(c) Juan Olmedo, a doctor.
(d) Ines Olmedo, a model.

5. What characterizes the poems on the first several pages of the Diary?
(a) Long strings of unrelated words.
(b) Rhymes.
(c) Aztec influences.
(d) Colorful, erratic writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Frida address an eight page letter to in the Diary?

2. How does Fuentes characterize the kinds of escapes from reality Andre Breton "was legislating as law" in France compared to Latin America?

3. Before the Mexican Revolution, what culture does Fuentes write influenced Mexico and Latin America?

4. What is a retablo?

5. How does Carlos Fuentes claim he first met Frida Kahlo?

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