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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 Fuentes claim have been the worst traumas for Mexico?

2. In Frida's "Portrait of Neferunico," who does the portrait most resemble?

3. How does Lowe write that Frida feels about Nefertiti?

4. Who does Fuentes write is like Frida, "hiding her tortured body"?

5. Which of the following best describe Frida's feeling for her husband?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What figures are included in Frida's "connect-the-dot" drawing?

3. How does Fuentes characterize foreign invasions of Mexico?

4. How did Kahlo's experiences in the U.S. shape her artistic career?

5. Frida labels an image "I am DISINTEGRATION." What is happening in that image?

6. What does Frida write about giving birth?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Frida creates a two page entry in memory of her poet friend Isabel "Chabela" Villasenor, who died shortly before she created them. She also created her own kind of free-association poems. How would you describe Frida's use of poetry? Is there a relationship between her poems and her art?

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