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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. What does Lowe notice about Kahlo's images of nude women?
(a) They are "virtually never shown as objects of desire."
(b) They are stronger figures than her vulnerable male nudes.
(c) They are "strewn about in a vulgar manner," and they are "perhaps overly used."
(d) They are all painted in a very different manner from her own nude self-portraits.

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

3. How does Lowe describe Kahlo as a reader?
(a) She was more interested in learning from experts than reading.
(b) She was a "voracious" reader.
(c) She did not read, but collected and flipped through inumerable art books.
(d) She was an "average reader," but enjoyed learning from other sources as well.

4. How does Lowe describe the act of reading Kahlo's diary?
(a) As "an invariably voyeruristic act," which she remarks is often colored by a creul attraction to the suffering of others.
(b) As an act that brings us closer to Kahlo's biography while offering us little or no insight into her work.
(c) As generally confusing given Kahlo's coded speech, and her frequent use of Surrealist games.
(d) As one of trangression, "charged with an element of voyerurism."

5. Who does Lowe write "cemented" the association of Frida and Surrealism?
(a) Jose Vasconcelos.
(b) Jose Clemente Orozco.
(c) Andre Breton.
(d) Diego Rivera.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What significance does the figure of a foot have to Frida?

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. Which of the following does Frida use in her Diary?

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