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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 did Frida use to create the central images of the icy landscape in her diary?
(a) Sauce that must have spilled onto the page.
(b) A sponge print.
(c) Blotted lipstick.
(d) Ink that seeped through the previous page.

2. What is a retablo?
(a) A revolutionary song used to spread news.
(b) A kind of poem.
(c) A painting.
(d) A colonial style table.

3. How does Lowe claim Frida creates many of the dedications in the Diary?
(a) Writing an entry at one time and a dedication at another.
(b) Using text similar to the texts found in retablos.
(c) Using a color of ink that she related to the person she was writing about.
(d) Inviting friends to write them in.

4. How does Lowe write that Frida's understanding of Communism changes?
(a) Frida becomes more and more interested in the local politics of the Communist party.
(b) Frida's understanding is based on what Diego Rivera teaches her.
(c) She connects it to her hatred of the U.S.
(d) It becomes more like a religious faith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following subjects does Frida mention in a letter to her husband in the Diary?

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

3. How does Lowe describe the act of reading Kahlo's diary?

4. Who does Lowe write does Frida draw in the Diary and use in a painting titled Moses?

5. What characterizes the poems on the first several pages of the Diary?

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