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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 Frida write over and over, in bubbles surrounding an angel?

2. What does Lowe write that it means when she paints her right foot?

3. Who is in the image labeled "What a dish!"?

4. What childhood memory does Frida write about in 1950?

5. Who did Frida give a painting to that she dated November 7, 1946?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frida write about Stalin?

2. Describe the two vases that Frida depicts crying.

3. How does Frida alter an erotic photo of a woman?

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

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

6. How does Frida describe the United States and England?

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

8. What doctor does Frida make reference to?

9. What childhood memory does Frida describe, and could be seen as the origins of The Two Fridas?

10. Frida creates a winged figure, and writes about Diego. What does she write about Diego in this entry?

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

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

Fuentes writes that Frida's physical pain mirrors the traumas of the Mexican nation. Lowe writes that despite the pain that is evident in her diary, her humor and "alegria" show through. What role do you think Frida's pain plays in her Diary? What is the role of pain in her context? Do you think that her pain has anything to do with her country? Her time? What role do you think it plays in her work as a whole? How do you think it has affected acceptance for, or interest in, her work?

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