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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 58 to 83.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following describe the mood of Frida's depiction of her animals.
(a) Sadistic.
(b) Playful.
(c) Humorous.
(d) Mournful.

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

3. What year does Fuentes write that the Mexican Revolution began?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1915.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As Frida's health declined, what does Lowe claim she painted more and more of?

2. Frida created an list of words beginning with the same letter. What letter did she use?

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

4. Lowe quotes Kahlo as writing that anguish and pain were both which of the following?

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

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