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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 part of Mexico does Fuentes compare to Frida's body?
(a) It's wounds.
(b) It's wars.
(c) It's art.
(d) It's music.

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

3. What did Andre Breton describe Frida Kahlo as?
(a) The best painter of our century.
(b) The most important woman in Mexican history.
(c) A lion, waiting on the bookshelf.
(d) A ribbon around a bombshell.

4. How does Lowe describe Frida's planning of the paintings in her Diary?
(a) They were unplanned.
(b) They were meticulously planned.
(c) They were planned in writing.
(d) They were, themselves, used to plan more formal paintings.

5. How does Fuentes characterize the kinds of escapes from reality Andre Breton "was legislating as law" in France compared to Latin America?
(a) As "needlessly ritualistic."
(b) As "small beer, comparatively speaking."
(c) As "unlikely to ever take hold."
(d) As "the law of life."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following best describe Lowe's tone in her writing about Kahlo?

3. What does Lowe claims motivate Kahlo's writing the Diary?

4. Where does Lowe write that Frida's work was first taken seriously (where she "made a decisive shift from amateur to professional painter")?

5. What year does Fuentes write that the Mexican Revolution began?

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