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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. What does Lowe write creates an "aura of illness" in one of the illustrations in the Diary?
(a) The color of dried blood.
(b) Images of decomposing food.
(c) The reflection of a doctor's office in Frida's eyes.
(d) Images of hospital halls.

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

3. What year does Fuentes write that the Mexican Revolution began?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1913.

4. What did Andre Breton describe Frida Kahlo as?
(a) A lion, waiting on the bookshelf.
(b) A ribbon around a bombshell.
(c) The best painter of our century.
(d) The most important woman in Mexican history.

5. What does Lowe write happened in Kahlo's life just before beginning the Diary?
(a) Her foot was amputated.
(b) Her father died.
(c) Her house burned down.
(d) Diego had an affair with her aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Xpcolatl" mean in Nahuatl?

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

3. How does Lowe write that Frida changes as she writes this Diary?

4. What is a retablo?

5. What language does Frida write in (in what Lowe points out is the only time she cites a source other than herself)?

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