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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 does the use of the "third eye" signify in the "Portrait of Neferunico"?
2. Which of the following best describes the mood of Frida's cold weather image?
3. What does Lowe write that "naturaleza muerta" translates to in English?
4. What did Andre Breton describe Frida Kahlo as?
5. What Tiffany art object does Carlos Fuentes describe?
Short Essay Questions
1. What figures are included in Frida's "connect-the-dot" drawing?
2. How does Lowe describe Frida's planning process for the images in the Diary?
3. In Frida's first string of words, which one is the one that Lowe singles out as the only word with a specific reference?
4. 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"?
5. What characterized Frida's "poetry"?
6. Who does Kahlo write a "melancholy" letter to in her Diary?
7. What are some of the external sources that Fuentes finds for Kahlo's art?
8. Frida labels an image "I am DISINTEGRATION." What is happening in that image?
9. Why does Lowe claim that Frida included a bride in her painting The Bride Who Becomes Frightened When She Sees Life Open?
10. How does Fuentes characterize Frida's depiction of pain?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Toward the end of Kahlo's diary, Lowe notes "Kahlo pairs a powerful modern political system -- Communism -- with an ancient, longer-lived regime -- the Aztec empire." In what other ways does she use pre-Columbian words and imagery? What overall effect does this have on her work? How does it effect her identity?
Essay Topic 3
Fuentes writes that Frida is intimately linked with Mexican history. He compares her physical pain to Mexico's "bloody" traumas. He also writes that she was born with the Revolution and "both mirrors and transcends the central event of twentieth-century Mexico." What evidence does Fuentes offer to support this statement? Is there any evidence of this in the Diary itself, or the pages that Frida created? Do you agree or disagree with Fuentes' statement? Why?
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