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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 story does Lowe liken Frida's childhood memory to?

2. Who does Frida write "lulls her to sleep"?

3. What signature does Frida use several times in the Diary?

4. What landscape image does Frida create in a late entry that Lowe writes is "eerie" and "unlike any [painting] Kahlo had ever made"?

5. Which of the following does Frida include in her final written entry in the Diary?

Short Essay Questions

1. What doctor does Frida make reference to?

2. How does Frida describe life after her leg is amputated?

3. What do arrows denote in Frida's only nude, full-length self-portrait?

4. What does Frida write about the painter Hieronymus Bosh?

5. What does Frida write about Stalin?

6. How does Frida depict skeletons?

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

8. Why does Frida draw her right foot?

9. How does Frida remember Isabel Villasenor?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

For Carlos Fuentes, Frida has three principal external sources -- her father, Guillermo Kahlo, and his photographic work, Mexican retablos, and the work of Jose Guadalupe Posadas. While these are important sources, he writes "she is capable of coming back to her original sources and transforming them." Which of these influences do you believe are the most important in her work? What influences can you find in the pages that she created in her own diary?

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

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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