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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essay by Sarah M. Lowe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before the Mexican Revolution, what culture does Fuentes write influenced Mexico and Latin America?
(a) German culture.
(b) Haitian culture.
(c) French culture.
(d) Italian culture.

2. How does Lowe describe the act of reading Kahlo's diary?
(a) As "an invariably voyeruristic act," which she remarks is often colored by a creul attraction to the suffering of others.
(b) As generally confusing given Kahlo's coded speech, and her frequent use of Surrealist games.
(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."

3. What line of work was Frida's father in?
(a) Music.
(b) Baking.
(c) Photography.
(d) Banking.

4. What does Fuentes write that Frida experienced in a painting she created for the American Clare Booth Luce (which other Mexican artists also experienced when selling art to Americans)?
(a) Censorship.
(b) Lack of payment.
(c) Misunderstandings about specifications.
(d) Unfair working conditions.

5. How does Lowe write that Frida's understanding of Communism changes?
(a) Frida becomes more and more interested in the local politics of the Communist party.
(b) She connects it to her hatred of the U.S.
(c) It becomes more like a religious faith.
(d) Frida's understanding is based on what Diego Rivera teaches her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lowe explain that reading the Diary may affect our viewing of Kahlo's paintings?

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

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

4. What did Andre Breton describe Frida Kahlo as?

5. What is a retablo?

(see the answer key)

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