Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Fuentes quote as having called pain "Dog"?
2. What was Kahlo's relationship with Lamba?
3. Who does Lowe write does Frida draw in the Diary and use in a painting titled Moses?
4. What does Fuentes claim have been the worst traumas for Mexico?
5. How did Kahlo paint Dorothy Hale?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are some of the external sources that Fuentes finds for Kahlo's art?
2. How does Fuentes compare the work of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo?
3. What does Frida write about giving birth?
4. What physical changes does Lowe write that the Diary documented?
5. What is automatic drawing?
6. Who does Kahlo create a double portrait of? What images surround the portrait?
7. In what ways does Fuentes describe Mexico City of Frida's time as different from Mexico City today?
8. 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"?
9. On what kind of body does Frida create a two-headed bull figure?
10. How does Fuentes characterize foreign invasions of Mexico?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Frida paints death, writes of a friend's death, and of her own future death. Lowe notes that in one entry, she even paints herself "in the same position [as a skeleton] but in reverse, as the figure on the previous page. The two even share a shattered arm." What role does death in general play in the Diary? What does the Diary help us to understand about Frida's understanding of death?
Essay Topic 3
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?
|
This section contains 715 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
