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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 Fuentes claim have been the worst traumas for Mexico?
(a) Foreign interventions.
(b) Sexism in the arts.
(c) Corruption.
(d) The Hacendado's abuses of power.

2. How does Lowe describe Kahlo as a reader?
(a) She was more interested in learning from experts than reading.
(b) She was an "average reader," but enjoyed learning from other sources as well.
(c) She did not read, but collected and flipped through inumerable art books.
(d) She was a "voracious" reader.

3. What movement has Frida been associated with?
(a) Cubism.
(b) Impressionism.
(c) Expressionism.
(d) Surrealism.

4. Who does Frida address an eight page letter to in the Diary?
(a) Her father, though he died years earlier.
(b) Diego Rivera.
(c) Her sister, Matilda.
(d) Jose Clemente Orozco.

5. How long does Lowe write that Frida kept this Diary?
(a) Five years.
(b) One year.
(c) Fifteen years.
(d) Ten years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jose Guadalupe Posada?

2. What does the use of the "third eye" signify in the "Portrait of Neferunico"?

3. One of the first images creates in her diary is "connect-the-dots ink drawing." Which of the following figures can be found in the drawing?

4. What does Lowe write that "naturaleza muerta" translates to in English?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lowe believe that Frida's Diary differs from most artist sketchbooks?

2. What does Frida write about giving birth?

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

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

5. How does Fuentes characterize foreign invasions of Mexico?

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

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

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

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

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

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