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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. How does Lowe describe the act of reading Kahlo's diary?
2. What does Fuentes claim have been the worst traumas for Mexico?
3. What did Frida use to create the central images of the icy landscape in her diary?
4. What is a retablo?
5. What pets does Lowe mentioned Frida keeps?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Frida write about giving birth?
2. In what ways does Fuentes describe Mexico City of Frida's time as different from Mexico City today?
3. What sentiments does Frida express in the first letter to Diego Rivera included in the Diary?
4. 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?
5. What does Kahlo connect to ink, and why does Lowe write that this is illuminating "with respect to her own creativity"?
6. In Frida's first string of words, which one is the one that Lowe singles out as the only word with a specific reference?
7. Sarah M. Lowe writes about the acceptance of themes like "birthing or miscarriage" in Western art. How does this relate to Frida?
8. What device does Lowe claim that Frida frequently uses? (She uses this for human forms, roots, and other organic figures.)
9. Frida labels an image "I am DISINTEGRATION." What is happening in that image?
10. Why does Lowe claim that Frida included a bride in her painting The Bride Who Becomes Frightened When She Sees Life Open?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
For Carlos Fuentes, Frida has three principal external sources -- her father, Guillermo Kahlo, and his photographic work, Mexican retablos, and the work of Jose Guadalupe Posadas. While these are important sources, he writes "she is capable of coming back to her original sources and transforming them." Which of these influences do you believe are the most important in her work? What influences can you find in the pages that she created in her own diary?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Sarah M. Lowe writes that the Diary documents Frida's physical decline. Do you agree or disagree? What evidence can you find in the Diary itself? What other trends can we see in the Diary entries over time?
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