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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. Who does Fuentes quote as having called pain "Dog"?
(a) Neitzsche.
(b) Engles.
(c) Diego Rivera.
(d) Marx.

2. Which of the following subjects does Frida mention in a letter to her husband in the Diary?
(a) Dollhouses.
(b) Food.
(c) The Day of the Dead.
(d) Color.

3. Who does Frida address an eight page letter to in the Diary?
(a) Her sister, Matilda.
(b) Her father, though he died years earlier.
(c) Jose Clemente Orozco.
(d) Diego Rivera.

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

5. What does Lowe write that Surrealists believed "automatic drawing" was useful for?
(a) Accessing the subconscious.
(b) Finding surprising combinations.
(c) Creating new ways of looking at things.
(d) Party games.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What characterizes the poems on the first several pages of the Diary?

3. What does Lowe write creates an "aura of illness" in one of the illustrations in the Diary?

4. How does Lowe write that Frida's understanding of Communism changes?

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

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