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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 Fuentes claim have been the worst traumas for Mexico?
(a) Sexism in the arts.
(b) The Hacendado's abuses of power.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Foreign interventions.

2. How does Lowe write that students remembered Frida?
(a) Always interested in romance.
(b) Always curious about life.
(c) Full of vitality.
(d) Full of vulgarity.

3. Who does Frida address an eight page letter to in the Diary?
(a) Jose Clemente Orozco.
(b) Diego Rivera.
(c) Her father, though he died years earlier.
(d) Her sister, Matilda.

4. Which of the following best describes the mood of Frida's cold weather image?
(a) Happy.
(b) Sad.
(c) Joyful.
(d) Stiff.

5. Frida created a double portrait surrounded by small images. Which of the following images are close to her face in this portrait?
(a) A faithful copy of the Mexico City's National Palace bell.
(b) Saturn.
(c) A Chinese yin-yang sign.
(d) An Egyptian pyramid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Andre Breton describe Frida Kahlo as?

2. Who does Frida write that she would like to serve as a "craftswoman"?

3. What figures share a splattered arm, on the front-side and back-side of a single page?

4. What characterizes the poems on the first several pages of the Diary?

5. Who is Olinka?

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