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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lowe claim was the guiding principal behind Surrealism?
(a) Rebellion.
(b) Mysticism.
(c) Suprise.
(d) Sadism.

3. What does Lowe write that Surrealists believed "automatic drawing" was useful for?
(a) Party games.
(b) Accessing the subconscious.
(c) Creating new ways of looking at things.
(d) Finding surprising combinations.

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

5. Frida created a double portrait surrounded by small images. Which of the following images are close to her face in this portrait?
(a) An Egyptian pyramid.
(b) Saturn.
(c) A Chinese yin-yang sign.
(d) A faithful copy of the Mexico City's National Palace bell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the carpas that Fuentes describes?

2. How does Lowe write that Frida's understanding of Communism changes?

3. How does Lowe explain that reading the Diary may affect our viewing of Kahlo's paintings?

4. What does Fuentes cite Virgina Woolf as writing on pain?

5. What "path" does Lowe write that Frida illuminates in this Diary?

Short Essay Questions

1. What characterized Frida's "poetry"?

2. How does Frida begin her diary?

3. Sarah M. Lowe writes about the acceptance of themes like "birthing or miscarriage" in Western art. How does this relate to Frida?

4. What does Kahlo connect to ink, and why does Lowe write that this is illuminating "with respect to her own creativity"?

5. What is automatic drawing?

6. How does Lowe describe Frida's planning process for the images in the Diary?

7. What figures are included in Frida's "connect-the-dot" drawing?

8. Who does Kahlo create a double portrait of? What images surround the portrait?

9. What sentiments does Frida express in the first letter to Diego Rivera included in the Diary?

10. Describe Frida's appearance, and the importance of her appearance, to Carlos Fuentes.

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