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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. How does Fuentes characterize the kinds of escapes from reality Andre Breton "was legislating as law" in France compared to Latin America?
(a) As "unlikely to ever take hold."
(b) As "the law of life."
(c) As "needlessly ritualistic."
(d) As "small beer, comparatively speaking."

2. Which of the following subjects does Frida mention in a letter to her husband in the Diary?
(a) Dollhouses.
(b) Food.
(c) The Day of the Dead.
(d) Color.

3. How does Lowe describe the act of reading Kahlo's diary?
(a) As generally confusing given Kahlo's coded speech, and her frequent use of Surrealist games.
(b) As "an invariably voyeruristic act," which she remarks is often colored by a creul attraction to the suffering of others.
(c) As an act that brings us closer to Kahlo's biography while offering us little or no insight into her work.
(d) As one of trangression, "charged with an element of voyerurism."

4. Which best describes how Fuentes characterizes Frida's speech?
(a) Very Proper.
(b) Often exaggerated.
(c) Frequently vulgar.
(d) Quirky.

5. How did Kahlo paint Dorothy Hale?
(a) After a bloody fight.
(b) In her own husband's embrace.
(c) Jumping from a building.
(d) Nude, in a lush landscape.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following best describe Lowe's tone in her writing about Kahlo?

3. What did Frida's students note about Frida's Spanish?

4. What does Fuentes cite Virgina Woolf as writing on pain?

5. Who is the Olmedo that Kahlo refers to in the first few pages of her poem?

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