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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. What does Frida write is "the only true reason to live for"?
(a) To paint.
(b) To enjoy secret love.
(c) The revolution.
(d) Learning.

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

3. As Frida's health declined, what does Lowe claim she painted more and more of?
(a) Skeletons.
(b) Nudes.
(c) Images of couples.
(d) Fruits and vegetables.

4. Frida creates an image of herself falling apart from the top of a column. What does she label this image?
(a) I am disintegration.
(b) The great fall.
(c) The pain is overwhelming.
(d) Where is Diego?

5. What does Lowe write to explain the piece The Two Fridas, painted in 1939?
(a) Frida wrote that one was how Diego would have her be, while the other was who she was.
(b) Frida wrote that one of these was the Frida Diego loved, the other was the Frida that Diego once loved.
(c) Frida claimed that one was the Frida that her parents had longed for, the other the Frida who was an artist.
(d) Frida claimed that one was the sick Frida, while the other was the healthy Frida.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fuentes claim have been the worst traumas for Mexico?

2. Who does Frida dedicate two pages to?

3. Who does Frida refer to with the signature "Yrenaica"?

4. Who is the Olmedo that Kahlo refers to in the first few pages of her poem?

5. What writing reveals that, as Lowe writes, "Kahlo came to her senses"?

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