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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. What does Lowe claim was the guiding principal behind Surrealism?
3. Lowe quotes Kahlo as writing that anguish and pain were both which of the following?
4. Frida created a double portrait surrounded by small images. Which of the following images are close to her face in this portrait?
5. Which of the following best describes the mood of Frida's cold weather image?
Short Essay Questions
1. What characterized Frida's "poetry"?
2. Frida labels an image "I am DISINTEGRATION." What is happening in that image?
3. How does Lowe describe Frida's planning process for the images in the Diary?
4. Describe Frida's appearance, and the importance of her appearance, to Carlos Fuentes.
5. 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"?
6. How does Fuentes describe the relationship between Kahlo's art and Surrealism?
7. What are some of the external sources that Fuentes finds for Kahlo's art?
8. How does Frida begin her diary?
9. What physical changes does Lowe write that the Diary documented?
10. What sentiments does Frida express in the first letter to Diego Rivera included in the Diary?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Fuentes writes that Frida conceives of "beauty as truth and self-knowledge. as becoming -- devenir -- [which] requires unblinking courage and is Kahlo's great legacy to the marginal, the invisible men and women of an increasingly faceless, anonymous planet..." Do you agree or disagree with this statement? How do you believe that Frida understands beauty? What evidence can you find for this in Sarah M. Lowe's introduction? What can you find in Frida's own writing?
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
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?
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