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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 are the carpas that Fuentes describes?
(a) Layers of "resentimiento," or popular resentment as the ideals of the Revolution were touted as realized in government.
(b) A term for old neighborhoods, like Coyoacan, that were once separate from Mexico City, but became part of the city as it grew.
(c) Tents that were the stage for satire in proletariat "barrios."
(d) A term for the typical cooking utensils that Adelitas, women who participated in the Revolution, typically carried on their backs.

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

3. What civilizations does Lowe wright were part of Kahlo's understanding of her "personal past"?
(a) The Surrealists in France.
(b) The Olmecs, Aztecs, and Toltecs.
(c) The Mayans.
(d) The Spanish.

4. What does Lowe notice about Kahlo's images of nude women?
(a) They are all painted in a very different manner from her own nude self-portraits.
(b) They are stronger figures than her vulnerable male nudes.
(c) They are "strewn about in a vulgar manner," and they are "perhaps overly used."
(d) They are "virtually never shown as objects of desire."

5. What does Fuentes write that Frida experienced in a painting she created for the American Clare Booth Luce (which other Mexican artists also experienced when selling art to Americans)?
(a) Misunderstandings about specifications.
(b) Censorship.
(c) Unfair working conditions.
(d) Lack of payment.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Frida address an eight page letter to in the Diary?

3. What does Kahlo liken to ink?

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

5. What does Fuentes write happened in September of 1925 that changed Frida's life?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Fuentes characterize foreign invasions of Mexico?

3. What is automatic drawing?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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