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

2. What does Lowe write is a "favorite device" of Frida's?
(a) "Ink strokes that form an undulating mesh of lines."
(b) "Bringing interior physical forms to the surface, to show power relationships."
(c) "Spilling ink, then moving it around on the surface to create a Surrealist-style image."
(d) "Having a friend begin an image and quickly finishing it, in an attempt to bypass the logical, thinking mind."

3. What does Fuentes write happened in September of 1925 that changed Frida's life?
(a) She miscarried.
(b) She divorced for the first time.
(c) Her foot was amputated.
(d) An accident.

4. What does Frida place in an icy landscape?
(a) A dead fish.
(b) "An out-of-place plate of tropica fruits."
(c) A foot.
(d) An "arctic bird."

5. Who does Lowe write "cemented" the association of Frida and Surrealism?
(a) Jose Vasconcelos.
(b) Diego Rivera.
(c) Andre Breton.
(d) Jose Clemente Orozco.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lowe explain that reading the Diary may affect our viewing of Kahlo's paintings?

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

3. Lowe quotes Kahlo as writing that anguish and pain were both which of the following?

4. What does Lowe notice about Kahlo's images of nude women?

5. Which of the following techniques does Lowe write that Kahlo used?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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"?

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

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

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

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

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

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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