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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Frida's "Portrait of Neferunico," who does the portrait most resemble?
(a) Diego Rivera.
(b) Nefertiti.
(c) Jacqueline Lamba.
(d) Frida herself.

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

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

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

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

7. Which of the following describe the mood of Frida's depiction of her animals.
(a) Mournful.
(b) Playful.
(c) Humorous.
(d) Sadistic.

8. Who is Xipe Totec?
(a) A Mayan war god.
(b) The central Aztec goddess.
(c) Our Lord of the Flayed Skin.
(d) Our Lady of the Mountain Top

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

10. What are the carpas that Fuentes describes?
(a) Layers of "resentimiento," or popular resentment as the ideals of the Revolution were touted as realized in government.
(b) Tents that were the stage for satire in proletariat "barrios."
(c) A term for the typical cooking utensils that Adelitas, women who participated in the Revolution, typically carried on their backs.
(d) A term for old neighborhoods, like Coyoacan, that were once separate from Mexico City, but became part of the city as it grew.

11. What does Lowe write is a "favorite device" of Frida's?
(a) "Bringing interior physical forms to the surface, to show power relationships."
(b) "Spilling ink, then moving it around on the surface to create a Surrealist-style image."
(c) "Ink strokes that form an undulating mesh of lines."
(d) "Having a friend begin an image and quickly finishing it, in an attempt to bypass the logical, thinking mind."

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

13. How does Frida describe "desire"?
(a) As "a dream we must attempt to prolong."
(b) As "what binds me to Diego."
(c) As "the one who gave birth to herself."
(d) As "communication from the gods."

14. What language does Frida write in (in what Lowe points out is the only time she cites a source other than herself)?
(a) French.
(b) German.
(c) Italian.
(d) English.

15. What does Lowe write that "naturaleza muerta" translates to in English?
(a) "Natural death."
(b) "Day of the Dead altar."
(c) "Nature in death."
(d) "Still life."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Xpcolatl" mean in Nahuatl?

2. Lowe quotes Kahlo as writing that anguish and pain were both which of the following?

3. What part of Mexico does Fuentes compare to Frida's body?

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

5. As her health began to decline, what kinds of images did Frida create fewer of?

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