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

2. Where did Carlos Fuentes first meet Frida?
(a) In the Alameda Park.
(b) At a Mexico City gallery called the Gallery of Mexican Art.
(c) In a restaurant called Sanborns.
(d) In the Palace of Fine Arts.

3. What are the carpas that Fuentes describes?
(a) Layers of "resentimiento," or popular resentment as the ideals of the Revolution were touted as realized in government.
(b) A term for the typical cooking utensils that Adelitas, women who participated in the Revolution, typically carried on their backs.
(c) Tents that were the stage for satire in proletariat "barrios."
(d) A term for old neighborhoods, like Coyoacan, that were once separate from Mexico City, but became part of the city as it grew.

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

5. What style does Fuentes claim was "in tune with the tastes of the Mexican elite" around the turn of the century?
(a) An Italian ornate style.
(b) A German born style emphasizing contrast.
(c) A surrealist style that influenced architecture at the time.
(d) An indigenous geometric style.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lowe argue is Frida's overall feeling toward life?

2. Which of the following best describe Lowe's tone in her writing about Kahlo?

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

4. How does Carlos Fuentes claim he first met Frida Kahlo?

5. How does Lowe write that the text Kahlo includes in the images in her Diary affect the viewers understanding of the image?

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