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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 33 to 57.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fuentes write happened in September of 1925 that changed Frida's life?
(a) She miscarried.
(b) An accident.
(c) She divorced for the first time.
(d) Her foot was amputated.

2. What does Lowe write about Frida's relationships with women?
(a) Some were consumated, while others were not.
(b) She was competitive with women artists.
(c) She felt competition with women because her husband was romantically interested in her female friends.
(d) She was constantly seeking female friends to discuss her marriage.

3. What does Lowe write creates an "aura of illness" in one of the illustrations in the Diary?
(a) Images of decomposing food.
(b) Images of hospital halls.
(c) The reflection of a doctor's office in Frida's eyes.
(d) The color of dried blood.

4. One of the first images creates in her diary is "connect-the-dots ink drawing." Which of the following figures can be found in the drawing?
(a) The Brooklyn Bridge.
(b) The solar system.
(c) A dog.
(d) A rainbow.

5. What does Fuentes write that Frida experienced in a painting she created for the American Clare Booth Luce (which other Mexican artists also experienced when selling art to Americans)?
(a) Lack of payment.
(b) Misunderstandings about specifications.
(c) Unfair working conditions.
(d) Censorship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fuentes claim have been the worst traumas for Mexico?

2. How does Lowe describe Frida's planning of the paintings in her Diary?

3. What language does Frida write in (in what Lowe points out is the only time she cites a source other than herself)?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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