View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essay by Sarah M. Lowe.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a retablo?
(a) A painting.
(b) A revolutionary song used to spread news.
(c) A colonial style table.
(d) A kind of poem.

3. Which best describes how Fuentes characterizes Frida's speech?
(a) Frequently vulgar.
(b) Quirky.
(c) Very Proper.
(d) Often exaggerated.

4. 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 one of trangression, "charged with an element of voyerurism."
(c) As generally confusing given Kahlo's coded speech, and her frequent use of Surrealist games.
(d) As "an invariably voyeruristic act," which she remarks is often colored by a creul attraction to the suffering of others.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the carpas that Fuentes describes?

2. How does Lowe write that Frida changes as she writes this Diary?

3. Where did Carlos Fuentes first meet Frida?

4. How does Fuentes compare the bloodshed of the Mexican Revolution and the "executions ordered by Hitler and Stalin"?

5. Who is Jose Guadalupe Posada?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 365 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample