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

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

3. What does Fuentes cite Virgina Woolf as writing on pain?
(a) It is undescribable.
(b) It is deeply personal.
(c) It is the one thing that all humanity shares.
(d) It affects women more than men.

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

5. How does Lowe write that Frida changes as she writes this Diary?
(a) She becomes more and more reclusive.
(b) She becomes more interested in her professional career as an artist.
(c) She becomes increasingly interested in expanding her artistic influences.
(d) She declines physically.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jose Guadalupe Posada?

2. What writing reveals that, as Lowe writes, "Kahlo came to her senses"?

3. What part of Mexico does Fuentes compare to Frida's body?

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

5. What does Frida label her cold climate image?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What figures are included in Frida's "connect-the-dot" drawing?

5. How does Frida begin her diary?

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

7. What is automatic drawing?

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

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

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