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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. As her health began to decline, what kinds of images did Frida create fewer of?
(a) Portraits of Diego.
(b) Images created from spilled ink.
(c) Self-portraits.
(d) Images with veins.

2. What does Lowe notice about Kahlo's images of nude women?
(a) They are stronger figures than her vulnerable male nudes.
(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 "strewn about in a vulgar manner," and they are "perhaps overly used."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Kahlo's relationship with Lamba?

2. What obsession does Frida reveal in a long list?

3. What did Frida's students note about Frida's Spanish?

4. Which of the following best describes the mood of Frida's cold weather image?

5. How does Lowe describe Kahlo as a reader?

Short Essay Questions

1. On what kind of body does Frida create a two-headed bull figure?

2. Who does Kahlo write a "melancholy" letter to in her Diary?

3. Why does Frida claim she was born in 1910?

4. How does Fuentes characterize Frida's depiction of pain?

5. In what ways does Fuentes write that Kahlo mirrors the Revolution in her art?

6. How does Lowe describe Frida's relationship with Surrealism?

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

8. How does Lowe compare Kahlo's diary with "diarists, both men and women [who] have chronicled their lives framed by their times or by particular historical events"?

9. In Frida's first string of words, which one is the one that Lowe singles out as the only word with a specific reference?

10. How does Fuentes characterize foreign invasions of Mexico?

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