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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 civilizations does Lowe wright were part of Kahlo's understanding of her "personal past"?
(a) The Surrealists in France.
(b) The Mayans.
(c) The Olmecs, Aztecs, and Toltecs.
(d) The Spanish.

2. What does the use of the "third eye" signify in the "Portrait of Neferunico"?
(a) "Her connection to India."
(b) "The power of her intuitive insight."
(c) "Her love of foreign things."
(d) "Her interest in unusual biological forms."

3. Who is Xipe Totec?
(a) Our Lady of the Mountain Top
(b) Our Lord of the Flayed Skin.
(c) The central Aztec goddess.
(d) A Mayan war god.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Fuentes compare the bloodshed of the Mexican Revolution and the "executions ordered by Hitler and Stalin"?

2. What writing reveals that, as Lowe writes, "Kahlo came to her senses"?

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

4. Who is Jose Guadalupe Posada?

5. Where did Carlos Fuentes first meet Frida?

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