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

2. Who is Xipe Totec?
(a) A Mayan war god.
(b) The central Aztec goddess.
(c) Our Lord of the Flayed Skin.
(d) Our Lady of the Mountain Top

3. What movement has Frida been associated with?
(a) Cubism.
(b) Impressionism.
(c) Expressionism.
(d) Surrealism.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Carlos Fuentes first meet Frida?

2. How does Lowe explain that reading the Diary may affect our viewing of Kahlo's paintings?

3. What did Andre Breton describe Frida Kahlo as?

4. What does Fuentes write happened in September of 1925 that changed Frida's life?

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

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