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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. How does Lowe write that the text Kahlo includes in the images in her Diary affect the viewers understanding of the image?
(a) For the most part, they are quotes from books.
(b) They generally are unrelated.
(c) They do not illuminate the meaning, but add to their complexity.
(d) They frequently describe what is happening in the image, as in a retablo.

2. What does Lowe argue is Frida's overall feeling toward life?
(a) A sense of happiness and humor.
(b) An interest in professional advancement keeps her going through difficulty.
(c) A feeling of pain and dispair.
(d) Worry over her husband.

3. What does Lowe claims motivate Kahlo's writing the Diary?
(a) "Negotiating her relationship to her self."
(b) "Drafting what would later become formal paintings."
(c) "Understanding her complicated romantic life."
(d) "Doodling when she was in too much pain to paint formally."

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

5. 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 one of trangression, "charged with an element of voyerurism."
(d) As an act that brings us closer to Kahlo's biography while offering us little or no insight into her work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What civilizations does Lowe wright were part of Kahlo's understanding of her "personal past"?

2. How does Lowe describe Frida's planning of the paintings in her Diary?

3. What kinds of metaphors does Lowe write that Frida made frequent use of?

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

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

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