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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 131 to 155.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frida equate with being alive?
(a) Being part of the Revolution.
(b) Having children.
(c) Painting with oil paints.
(d) Making her husband's favorite soup.

2. 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.

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

4. Which of the images in the Diary does Frida later use for a formal painting?
(a) "Motion in Prance."
(b) "August Heaven and Earth Me and Diego."
(c) "Footprints and Sun Prince."
(d) "Center and One."

5. In a double (or triple) portrait, that Lowe writes recalls The Two Fridas, which of the following does Lowe write that Kahlo illustrates?
(a) The strength of romantic life.
(b) The power struggle in a family.
(c) The stages of a woman's life.
(d) The violence of birth and death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "golden section," which Frida writes of as the "seccion de oro"?

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

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

4. What does Frida write on the page that she fills with faces in bubbles?

5. What figures are included in the image Frida labels "DEATH IN A RIOT"?

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