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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 131 to 155.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frida write over and over, in bubbles surrounding an angel?
(a) Harmony.
(b) Love.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Pain.

2. What does Lowe write that it means when she paints her right foot?
(a) This foot brought her pain, so she may have been focused on pain.
(b) The foot was a Toltec symbol.
(c) It is a reflection on her childhood illness that affected this foot.
(d) It is a comical referrence to Diego Rivera's delicate painting of women's feet.

3. What number repeats in Frida's diary?
(a) 911.
(b) 379.
(c) 424.
(d) 888.

4. In Frida's "Portrait of Neferunico," who does the portrait most resemble?
(a) Nefertiti.
(b) Jacqueline Lamba.
(c) Frida herself.
(d) Diego Rivera.

5. What style does Fuentes claim was "in tune with the tastes of the Mexican elite" around the turn of the century?
(a) An Italian ornate style.
(b) An indigenous geometric style.
(c) A surrealist style that influenced architecture at the time.
(d) A German born style emphasizing contrast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lowe notice about Kahlo's images of nude women?

2. Who does Frida credit with the fact that she is "no longer alone"?

3. How does Fuentes compare the bloodshed of the Mexican Revolution and the "executions ordered by Hitler and Stalin"?

4. What characterizes the poems on the first several pages of the Diary?

5. Which of the following does Frida admire, and write about in her diary?

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