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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What style does Fuentes claim was "in tune with the tastes of the Mexican elite" around the turn of the century?

3. Where does Lowe write that Frida's work was first taken seriously (where she "made a decisive shift from amateur to professional painter")?

4. Who does Lowe write does Frida draw in the Diary and use in a painting titled Moses?

5. Who is Jose Guadalupe Posada?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Sarah M. Lowe describe Frida's intentions in creating her Diary? Given Frida's intentions, how does she understand the "act" of reading the Diary?

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

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

10. How does Fuentes compare the work of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Kahlo's early interest in physiology and biology affect her art? What does Lowe write is her most common biological and botanical metaphor? How do you see this used throughout the Diary?

Essay Topic 2

Fuentes notes that Andre Breton stipulated a great number of "rules" that Surrealists needed to follow, but argues that the sense of magic and surprise that he was after exists naturally in Mexico and Latin America. Sarah M. Lowe writes that Frida did not feel strongly aligned with this movement. Would you categorize Frida's work as Surrealist? What evidence can you find in the Diary to explain why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Frida combines her face with Diego's face. She adds wings to the human body. In what other ways does Frida demonstrate an interest in hybrid forms?

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