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

2. Before the Mexican Revolution, what culture does Fuentes write influenced Mexico and Latin America?
(a) French culture.
(b) Haitian culture.
(c) German culture.
(d) Italian culture.

3. In Frida's "portrait of Nefertidos," which cultures does Frida combine?
(a) Aztec, Hindu, and Egyptian.
(b) French, German, and Italian.
(c) Mayan, German, and Egyptian.
(d) Mexican, American, and French.

4. What object in one of her paintings is explained in Kahlo's letter to Lamba?
(a) A chapel.
(b) A mouse.
(c) A bride.
(d) An apple.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As Frida's health declined, what does Lowe claim she painted more and more of?

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

3. Who is the Olmedo that Kahlo refers to in the first few pages of her poem?

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

5. Who did Frida write many letters to in the Diary?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Lowe claim that Frida included a bride in her painting The Bride Who Becomes Frightened When She Sees Life Open?

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

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

5. In what ways does Fuentes describe Mexico City of Frida's time as different from Mexico City today?

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

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

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

9. 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"?

10. How does Fuentes characterize foreign invasions of Mexico?

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