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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Frida creates an image of herself falling apart from the top of a column. What does she label this image?
(a) I am disintegration.
(b) The pain is overwhelming.
(c) The great fall.
(d) Where is Diego?

2. Which of the following best describe Frida's feeling for her husband?
(a) Frustration.
(b) Anger.
(c) Devotion.
(d) Respect.

3. 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 violence of birth and death.
(b) The power struggle in a family.
(c) The stages of a woman's life.
(d) The strength of romantic life.

4. How did Kahlo paint Dorothy Hale?
(a) In her own husband's embrace.
(b) Jumping from a building.
(c) Nude, in a lush landscape.
(d) After a bloody fight.

5. Which of the following qualities does Lowe claim Frida shares with Surrealism?
(a) An interest in romance.
(b) A love of the grotesque.
(c) An interest in the subconscious.
(d) A fascination with pain.

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

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

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

9. What significance does the figure of a foot have to Frida?
(a) Lowe claims it is an ancient Mayan symbol of fertility.
(b) Lowe writes it may be related to the pain in her right foot.
(c) Lowe claims that the foot has to do with Frida's desire to move more freely.
(d) Lowe writes that this was an inside joke that she had with Diego.

10. 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 "small beer, comparatively speaking."
(c) As "unlikely to ever take hold."
(d) As "needlessly ritualistic."

11. Who is Jaqueline Lamba?
(a) A famous chef.
(b) A poet.
(c) An Existential philosopher.
(d) A Surrealist painter.

12. What is depicted on the first painted page of Frida's Diary?
(a) A poem.
(b) A favorite quotation.
(c) A kind of title page.
(d) Frida's favorite recipe.

13. What style does Fuentes claim was "in tune with the tastes of the Mexican elite" around the turn of the century?
(a) An indigenous geometric style.
(b) A surrealist style that influenced architecture at the time.
(c) An Italian ornate style.
(d) A German born style emphasizing contrast.

14. Which best describes how Fuentes characterizes Frida's speech?
(a) Quirky.
(b) Frequently vulgar.
(c) Very Proper.
(d) Often exaggerated.

15. Who does Lowe write "cemented" the association of Frida and Surrealism?
(a) Andre Breton.
(b) Diego Rivera.
(c) Jose Vasconcelos.
(d) Jose Clemente Orozco.

Short Answer Questions

1. What exercise does Frida do with colored pencils in the Diary?

2. How does Fuentes compare the bloodshed of the Mexican Revolution and the "executions ordered by Hitler and Stalin"?

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

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

5. Who is Xipe Totec?

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