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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. Frida created an list of words beginning with the same letter. What letter did she use?
2. What was Kahlo's relationship with Lamba?
3. What aspect of Rembrandt and Van Gogh's work does Lowe compare to Kahlo's?
4. In Frida's "portrait of Nefertidos," which cultures does Frida combine?
5. How does Lowe describe Kahlo as a reader?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Frida's first string of words, which one is the one that Lowe singles out as the only word with a specific reference?
2. How does Fuentes characterize foreign invasions of Mexico?
3. What characterized Frida's "poetry"?
4. Who does Kahlo create a double portrait of? What images surround the portrait?
5. 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?
6. In what ways does Fuentes describe Mexico City of Frida's time as different from Mexico City today?
7. What figures are included in Frida's "connect-the-dot" drawing?
8. What device does Lowe claim that Frida frequently uses? (She uses this for human forms, roots, and other organic figures.)
9. Why does Lowe claim that Frida included a bride in her painting The Bride Who Becomes Frightened When She Sees Life Open?
10. How does Fuentes characterize Frida's depiction of pain?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Fuentes writes that Frida was a member of the Communist party from an early age, but that her "politics, such as they were, could not be separated from the personality and the actions of Diego Rivera." Lowe writes that she understood Communism in a religious way. Based on both the text and images in her Diary, how do you think that Frida understood Communism?
Essay Topic 2
Fuentes notes that Andre Breton stipulated a great number of "rules" that Surrealists needed to follow, but argues that the sense of magic and surprise that he was after exists naturally in Mexico and Latin America. Sarah M. Lowe writes that Frida did not feel strongly aligned with this movement. Would you categorize Frida's work as Surrealist? What evidence can you find in the Diary to explain why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
After Frida's death, her fame grew immensely. Can you identify any of the reasons for her popularity in the Diary itself?
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