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

2. What line of work was Frida's father in?
(a) Music.
(b) Photography.
(c) Banking.
(d) Baking.

3. What year does Fuentes write that the Mexican Revolution began?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1915.

4. What does Lowe argue is Frida's overall feeling toward life?
(a) An interest in professional advancement keeps her going through difficulty.
(b) A sense of happiness and humor.
(c) Worry over her husband.
(d) A feeling of pain and dispair.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the carpas that Fuentes describes?

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

3. What does Fuentes cite Virgina Woolf as writing on pain?

4. What civilizations does Lowe wright were part of Kahlo's understanding of her "personal past"?

5. Who is Xipe Totec?

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