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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. Where did Carlos Fuentes first meet Frida?
(a) In a restaurant called Sanborns.
(b) In the Alameda Park.
(c) In the Palace of Fine Arts.
(d) At a Mexico City gallery called the Gallery of Mexican Art.

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

3. What movement has Frida been associated with?
(a) Impressionism.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Cubism.
(d) Expressionism.

4. How does Carlos Fuentes claim he first met Frida Kahlo?
(a) He smelled her perfume.
(b) He had to ask her to take care of her dog.
(c) He heard her.
(d) He was introduced by a mutual friend.

5. What does Frida place in an icy landscape?
(a) A dead fish.
(b) "An out-of-place plate of tropica fruits."
(c) An "arctic bird."
(d) A foot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is depicted on the first painted page of Frida's Diary?

2. What does Lowe write that Surrealists believed "automatic drawing" was useful for?

3. What aspect of Rembrandt and Van Gogh's work does Lowe compare to Kahlo's?

4. What does Lowe write happened in Kahlo's life just before beginning the Diary?

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

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