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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 108 to 131.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Frida refer to with the signature "Yrenaica"?
(a) Irene, a former assistant and lover to Diego Rivera.
(b) Irene, assistant to the President of Mexico.
(c) Yvette, a teacher from her childhood.
(d) Yvette, her doctor's assistant.

2. What does Lowe notice about Kahlo's images of nude women?
(a) They are "strewn about in a vulgar manner," and they are "perhaps overly used."
(b) They are all painted in a very different manner from her own nude self-portraits.
(c) They are stronger figures than her vulnerable male nudes.
(d) They are "virtually never shown as objects of desire."

3. How does Lowe write that students remembered Frida?
(a) Always curious about life.
(b) Full of vitality.
(c) Always interested in romance.
(d) Full of vulgarity.

4. What "path" does Lowe write that Frida illuminates in this Diary?
(a) "The path toward death."
(b) "The path toward love."
(c) "The path of a consummate artist."
(d) "The artist's path."

5. What does Frida write on the page that she fills with faces in bubbles?
(a) "How ugly people are!"
(b) "Must stay separate."
(c) "Not a friendly face in the crowd!"
(d) "You can't take them anywhere."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Frida label her cold climate image?

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

4. Where does Lowe write that Frida's work was first taken seriously (where she "made a decisive shift from amateur to professional painter")?

5. As the Diary progresses, what does Lowe write that Frida gives an increasing amount of attention to?

(see the answer key)

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