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

2. Where does Lowe write that Frida's work was first taken seriously (where she "made a decisive shift from amateur to professional painter")?
(a) On a trip to Puerto Rico.
(b) In Germany.
(c) In the United States.
(d) In Mexico City, where Ines Amor organized an important exhibit.

3. How does Lowe describe Kahlo as a reader?
(a) She did not read, but collected and flipped through inumerable art books.
(b) She was more interested in learning from experts than reading.
(c) She was an "average reader," but enjoyed learning from other sources as well.
(d) She was a "voracious" reader.

4. Who does Fuentes quote as having called pain "Dog"?
(a) Diego Rivera.
(b) Engles.
(c) Neitzsche.
(d) Marx.

5. What does Fuentes cite Virgina Woolf as writing on pain?
(a) It is undescribable.
(b) It affects women more than men.
(c) It is deeply personal.
(d) It is the one thing that all humanity shares.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lowe argue is Frida's overall feeling toward life?

2. Who does Fuentes write is like Frida, "hiding her tortured body"?

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

4. What aspect of Rembrandt and Van Gogh's work does Lowe compare to Kahlo's?

5. How does Lowe describe the act of reading Kahlo's diary?

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