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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 Lowe write is a "favorite device" of Frida's?

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

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

4. Which of the following qualities does Lowe claim Frida shares with Surrealism?

5. What line of work was Frida's father in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Frida claim she was born in 1910?

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

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 characterized Frida's "poetry"?

6. What physical changes does Lowe write that the Diary documented?

7. In what ways does Fuentes describe Mexico City of Frida's time as different from Mexico City today?

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

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

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

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 2

Frida combines her face with Diego's face. She adds wings to the human body. In what other ways does Frida demonstrate an interest in hybrid forms?

Essay Topic 3

Lowe compares the reception of Frida's self-portraits (sometimes thought "excessively personal and self-referential") to those of Rembrant and VanGogh (who, she claims, express sentiments "considered applicable to all of 'mankind'"). Explain whether or not you believe that Frida's artistic expression is something that could be universally understood.

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