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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. What does Lowe claims motivate Kahlo's writing the Diary?
(a) "Understanding her complicated romantic life."
(b) "Doodling when she was in too much pain to paint formally."
(c) "Drafting what would later become formal paintings."
(d) "Negotiating her relationship to her self."

2. How does Fuentes characterize the kinds of escapes from reality Andre Breton "was legislating as law" in France compared to Latin America?
(a) As "the law of life."
(b) As "needlessly ritualistic."
(c) As "unlikely to ever take hold."
(d) As "small beer, comparatively speaking."

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

4. Which of the following best characterizes the sentiments that Frida expresses in her Diary toward her husband?
(a) Anger.
(b) Love.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Concern.

5. What does Frida write "is the most ridiculous thing 'man' has"?
(a) Art.
(b) Tragedy.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Frida claim was her best example of tenderness as a youth?

2. What does Frida label her own work in the Diary?

3. What writing reveals that, as Lowe writes, "Kahlo came to her senses"?

4. In the image where Frida paints "an angel and putto," what does Lowe write that Frida creates instead of stars?

5. What is the first thing Frida mentions as having passed between 1950 and 1951?

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