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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 156 to 183.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Miss Capulina?
(a) An artist.
(b) A deer.
(c) A poet.
(d) A dog.

3. In Frida's "portrait of Nefertidos," which cultures does Frida combine?
(a) French, German, and Italian.
(b) Mexican, American, and French.
(c) Mayan, German, and Egyptian.
(d) Aztec, Hindu, and Egyptian.

4. 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) A term for old neighborhoods, like Coyoacan, that were once separate from Mexico City, but became part of the city as it grew.
(c) Tents that were the stage for satire in proletariat "barrios."
(d) Layers of "resentimiento," or popular resentment as the ideals of the Revolution were touted as realized in government.

5. What exercise does Frida do with colored pencils in the Diary?
(a) She creates patterns with each color.
(b) She compares her use of the color with that of an artist friend.
(c) She creates a unique doodle with each color.
(d) She free associates with each color.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Lowe attribute Frida's "loose" handwriting in 1947?

2. What style does Fuentes claim was "in tune with the tastes of the Mexican elite" around the turn of the century?

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

4. Frida paints two images of death. The first is labeled "Deaths in a Riot." What is the mood of this image?

5. What civilizations does Lowe wright were part of Kahlo's understanding of her "personal past"?

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