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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) "Drafting what would later become formal paintings."
(c) "Negotiating her relationship to her self."
(d) "Doodling when she was in too much pain to paint formally."

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

3. What "path" does Lowe write that Frida illuminates in this Diary?
(a) "The artist's path."
(b) "The path toward death."
(c) "The path toward love."
(d) "The path of a consummate artist."

4. How does Lowe describe the act of reading Kahlo's diary?
(a) As one of trangression, "charged with an element of voyerurism."
(b) As generally confusing given Kahlo's coded speech, and her frequent use of Surrealist games.
(c) As "an invariably voyeruristic act," which she remarks is often colored by a creul attraction to the suffering of others.
(d) As an act that brings us closer to Kahlo's biography while offering us little or no insight into her work.

5. How did Kahlo paint Dorothy Hale?
(a) Jumping from a building.
(b) In her own husband's embrace.
(c) After a bloody fight.
(d) Nude, in a lush landscape.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a retablo?

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

3. What did Andre Breton describe Frida Kahlo as?

4. Where did Carlos Fuentes first meet Frida?

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

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