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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object in one of her paintings is explained in Kahlo's letter to Lamba?
(a) A bride.
(b) A mouse.
(c) An apple.
(d) A chapel.

2. What does Lowe notice about Kahlo's images of nude women?
(a) They are "strewn about in a vulgar manner," and they are "perhaps overly used."
(b) They are all painted in a very different manner from her own nude self-portraits.
(c) They are "virtually never shown as objects of desire."
(d) They are stronger figures than her vulnerable male nudes.

3. What did Frida use to create the central images of the icy landscape in her diary?
(a) Ink that seeped through the previous page.
(b) Sauce that must have spilled onto the page.
(c) A sponge print.
(d) Blotted lipstick.

4. Who does Fuentes quote as having called pain "Dog"?
(a) Marx.
(b) Neitzsche.
(c) Engles.
(d) Diego Rivera.

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

6. Who did Frida write many letters to in the Diary?
(a) Dolores Olmedo.
(b) Diego Rivera.
(c) Juan Olmedo, her doctor.
(d) Ana Kahlo, her sister.

7. What does Lowe write happened in Kahlo's life just before beginning the Diary?
(a) Her foot was amputated.
(b) Her house burned down.
(c) Her father died.
(d) Diego had an affair with her aunt.

8. Which of the following best describes the connection between entries in Frida's diary.
(a) They are themed.
(b) They show her maturing, over the course of about 15 years.
(c) They deal with the current trauma in her life.
(d) There is little continuity.

9. What "path" does Lowe write that Frida illuminates in this Diary?
(a) "The path of a consummate artist."
(b) "The path toward death."
(c) "The path toward love."
(d) "The artist's path."

10. What does Fuentes write that Frida experienced in a painting she created for the American Clare Booth Luce (which other Mexican artists also experienced when selling art to Americans)?
(a) Censorship.
(b) Misunderstandings about specifications.
(c) Lack of payment.
(d) Unfair working conditions.

11. How does Lowe explain that reading the Diary may affect our viewing of Kahlo's paintings?
(a) We may understand just how much Frida lived in her husband's shadow.
(b) We may begin to grasp how much time Frida spent alone, and why she painted self-portraits.
(c) We may understand how physical pain limited Frida.
(d) We may see Frida as more human.

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

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

14. How does Lowe describe Frida's planning of the paintings in her Diary?
(a) They were meticulously planned.
(b) They were, themselves, used to plan more formal paintings.
(c) They were planned in writing.
(d) They were unplanned.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a retablo?

2. How does Lowe write that the text Kahlo includes in the images in her Diary affect the viewers understanding of the image?

3. Which of the following best describe Lowe's tone in her writing about Kahlo?

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

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

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