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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. How long does Lowe write that Frida kept this Diary?
(a) Fifteen years.
(b) Five years.
(c) One year.
(d) Ten years.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What movement has Frida been associated with?

2. What are the carpas that Fuentes describes?

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

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

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

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