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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essay by Sarah M. Lowe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fuentes write that Frida experienced in a painting she created for the American Clare Booth Luce (which other Mexican artists also experienced when selling art to Americans)?
(a) Misunderstandings about specifications.
(b) Unfair working conditions.
(c) Lack of payment.
(d) Censorship.

2. Who does Fuentes write is like Frida, "hiding her tortured body"?
(a) The Virgin of Guadalupe.
(b) A broken Cleopatra.
(c) Adelitas, women involved in the Mexican Revolution.
(d) Maria Izquierdo.

3. How does Lowe describe Frida's planning of the paintings in her Diary?
(a) They were meticulously planned.
(b) They were unplanned.
(c) They were, themselves, used to plan more formal paintings.
(d) They were planned in writing.

4. What line of work was Frida's father in?
(a) Baking.
(b) Banking.
(c) Photography.
(d) Music.

5. What kinds of metaphors does Lowe write that Frida made frequent use of?
(a) Leaves and branches.
(b) Sexual metaphors.
(c) Veins and roots.
(d) Clouds and water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "path" does Lowe write that Frida illuminates in this Diary?

2. What does Lowe claim was the guiding principal behind Surrealism?

3. How does Fuentes compare the bloodshed of the Mexican Revolution and the "executions ordered by Hitler and Stalin"?

4. What does Fuentes cite Virgina Woolf as writing on pain?

5. How does Lowe write that Frida changes as she writes this Diary?

(see the answer key)

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