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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 is depicted on the first painted page of Frida's Diary?
(a) A kind of title page.
(b) A poem.
(c) Frida's favorite recipe.
(d) A favorite quotation.

2. In Frida's "Portrait of Neferunico," who does the portrait most resemble?
(a) Nefertiti.
(b) Diego Rivera.
(c) Frida herself.
(d) Jacqueline Lamba.

3. What does Lowe write about Frida's relationships with women?
(a) She was competitive with women artists.
(b) Some were consumated, while others were not.
(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.

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

5. How does Fuentes compare the bloodshed of the Mexican Revolution and the "executions ordered by Hitler and Stalin"?
(a) As "more frequently over looked by historians, but no less important."
(b) As "globally less important."
(c) As "small beer."
(d) As "on par."

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following techniques does Lowe write that Kahlo used?

2. What does Lowe claims motivate Kahlo's writing the Diary?

3. Which best describes how Fuentes characterizes Frida's speech?

4. Where did Carlos Fuentes first meet Frida?

5. Who does Fuentes write is like Frida, "hiding her tortured body"?

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