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

2. What did Andre Breton describe Frida Kahlo as?
(a) The best painter of our century.
(b) A lion, waiting on the bookshelf.
(c) The most important woman in Mexican history.
(d) A ribbon around a bombshell.

3. Who is Jose Guadalupe Posada?
(a) Frida's first husband.
(b) A rebvolutionary leader.
(c) A priest.
(d) A graphic artist.

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

5. What was Kahlo's relationship with Lamba?
(a) Lowe claims they were lovers.
(b) Fuentes writes that they were competitors.
(c) They were very close.
(d) They once studied together.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Lowe argue is Frida's overall feeling toward life?

4. What object in one of her paintings is explained in Kahlo's letter to Lamba?

5. Which of the following subjects does Frida mention in a letter to her husband in the Diary?

Short Essay Questions

1. What device does Lowe claim that Frida frequently uses? (She uses this for human forms, roots, and other organic figures.)

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

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

4. What are some of the external sources that Fuentes finds for Kahlo's art?

5. Frida labels an image "I am DISINTEGRATION." What is happening in that image?

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

7. How did Kahlo's experiences in the U.S. shape her artistic career?

8. What is in the image that Frida labels "The Phenomenon Unforseen"?

9. How does Fuentes describe the relationship between Kahlo's art and Surrealism?

10. What physical changes does Lowe write that the Diary documented?

(see the answer keys)

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