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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) Her foot was amputated.
(b) She miscarried.
(c) She divorced for the first time.
(d) An accident.

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

3. What movement has Frida been associated with?
(a) Cubism.
(b) Expressionism.
(c) Impressionism.
(d) Surrealism.

4. Frida created an list of words beginning with the same letter. What letter did she use?
(a) X.
(b) M.
(c) A.
(d) C.

5. How does Carlos Fuentes claim he first met Frida Kahlo?
(a) He was introduced by a mutual friend.
(b) He had to ask her to take care of her dog.
(c) He smelled her perfume.
(d) He heard her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lowe claim was the guiding principal behind Surrealism?

2. Before the Mexican Revolution, what culture does Fuentes write influenced Mexico and Latin America?

3. Who did Frida write many letters to in the Diary?

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

5. What object in one of her paintings is explained in Kahlo's letter to Lamba?

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