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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 recipe does Frida include in her Diary?

2. What film does Isabel Villasenor participate in?

3. Who is Olinka?

4. Who is Isabel Villasenor?

5. What does Lowe write that a dot within a circle symbolized to the Aztecs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What anniversary does Frida mark with a diary entry?

2. What does Frida write about Stalin?

3. Describe the two vases that Frida depicts crying.

4. Which painting does Frida plan in a preliminary sketch in her diary?

5. What interest does Frida show in art technique and tradition?

6. What image does Frida create with the word "sleep"?

7. Frida uses the signature Sadja. What does this mean?

8. What is the Eyesaurus.

9. How does Frida describe her early life in her "Outline of my life"?

10. What image does Lowe write that Frida paints from "a worm's-eye view"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Kahlo's early interest in physiology and biology affect her art? What does Lowe write is her most common biological and botanical metaphor? How do you see this used throughout the Diary?

Essay Topic 2

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 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?

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