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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 is a retablo?
(a) A colonial style table.
(b) A painting.
(c) A revolutionary song used to spread news.
(d) A kind of poem.

2. What are the carpas that Fuentes describes?
(a) Layers of "resentimiento," or popular resentment as the ideals of the Revolution were touted as realized in government.
(b) A term for the typical cooking utensils that Adelitas, women who participated in the Revolution, typically carried on their backs.
(c) A term for old neighborhoods, like Coyoacan, that were once separate from Mexico City, but became part of the city as it grew.
(d) Tents that were the stage for satire in proletariat "barrios."

3. What does Fuentes claim have been the worst traumas for Mexico?
(a) The Hacendado's abuses of power.
(b) Foreign interventions.
(c) Sexism in the arts.
(d) Corruption.

4. What does Fuentes write happened in September of 1925 that changed Frida's life?
(a) An accident.
(b) She miscarried.
(c) Her foot was amputated.
(d) She divorced for the first time.

5. Which best describes how Fuentes characterizes Frida's speech?
(a) Quirky.
(b) Frequently vulgar.
(c) Often exaggerated.
(d) Very Proper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Lowe write "cemented" the association of Frida and Surrealism?

2. Who is Xipe Totec?

3. What does Lowe write happened in Kahlo's life just before beginning the Diary?

4. Who is Jose Guadalupe Posada?

5. How long does Lowe write that Frida kept this Diary?

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