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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. How does Lowe describe Frida's planning of the paintings in her Diary?
(a) They were planned in writing.
(b) They were unplanned.
(c) They were meticulously planned.
(d) They were, themselves, used to plan more formal paintings.

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

3. Where does Lowe write that Frida's work was first taken seriously (where she "made a decisive shift from amateur to professional painter")?
(a) In Germany.
(b) On a trip to Puerto Rico.
(c) In the United States.
(d) In Mexico City, where Ines Amor organized an important exhibit.

4. How does Fuentes characterize the kinds of escapes from reality Andre Breton "was legislating as law" in France compared to Latin America?
(a) As "unlikely to ever take hold."
(b) As "the law of life."
(c) As "small beer, comparatively speaking."
(d) As "needlessly ritualistic."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following qualities does Lowe claim Frida shares with Surrealism?

2. What aspect of Rembrandt and Van Gogh's work does Lowe compare to Kahlo's?

3. Who is Xipe Totec?

4. Where did Carlos Fuentes first meet Frida?

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

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