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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. Which of the following describe the mood of Frida's depiction of her animals.

2. Frida creates an image of herself falling apart from the top of a column. What does she label this image?

3. Which of the following does Frida use in her Diary?

4. Who does Lowe write "cemented" the association of Frida and Surrealism?

5. How did Kahlo paint Dorothy Hale?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who does Kahlo write a "melancholy" letter to in her Diary?

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

5. What is automatic drawing?

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

7. How does Frida begin her diary?

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

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

10. How does Fuentes characterize foreign invasions of Mexico?

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

Images of Diego Rivera and letters to him are included in the Diary. How would you characterize his inclusion in the Diary? How would you describe his relationship with Frida based on Frida's entries? How would you describe their relationship based on Fuentes' and Lowe's writings?

Essay Topic 3

According to the Introductions by Fuentes and Lowe, Frida and Diego's relationship was complex. They both had affairs. They divorced. They remarried. Is there any evidence in Frida's own writing that the relationship was less than ideal? What evidence does she offer about her married life? How do you believe that this shaped her life and her art?

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