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

2. What does Lowe argue is Frida's overall feeling toward life?
(a) An interest in professional advancement keeps her going through difficulty.
(b) A sense of happiness and humor.
(c) A feeling of pain and dispair.
(d) Worry over her husband.

3. What part of Mexico does Fuentes compare to Frida's body?
(a) It's wars.
(b) It's music.
(c) It's wounds.
(d) It's art.

4. What does Lowe write that Frida's "primative, ancient animal" creation recalls?
(a) Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent of Aztec legend.
(b) A fertility godess.
(c) Tlaloc, the god of rain.
(d) Cuaticue, an Aztec godess that gave birth to the moon.

5. How does Frida describe "desire"?
(a) As "what binds me to Diego."
(b) As "communication from the gods."
(c) As "a dream we must attempt to prolong."
(d) As "the one who gave birth to herself."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Frida write next to the image of a disembodied hand (which Lowe writes is likely Rivera's) caressing an unspecified object?

3. After writing, "I am no longer alone," who does Frida write that she loves?

4. What does Lowe notice about Kahlo's images of nude women?

5. How does Lowe explain that reading the Diary may affect our viewing of Kahlo's paintings?

(see the answer key)

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