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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 108 to 131.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Tiffany art object does Carlos Fuentes describe?
(a) A beautiful lamp shade.
(b) Frida's earrings.
(c) A glass curtain.
(d) A diamond studded leash.

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

3. What was Kahlo's relationship with Lamba?
(a) They were very close.
(b) Lowe claims they were lovers.
(c) Fuentes writes that they were competitors.
(d) They once studied together.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Mexico does Fuentes compare to Frida's body?

2. Which of the following best describe Frida's feeling for her husband?

3. How does Lowe write that Frida's understanding of Communism changes?

4. How does Lowe write that students remembered Frida?

5. What picture does Frida use to create a collage?

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