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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 156 to 183.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lowe claim Frida creates many of the dedications in the Diary?
(a) Using text similar to the texts found in retablos.
(b) Inviting friends to write them in.
(c) Using a color of ink that she related to the person she was writing about.
(d) Writing an entry at one time and a dedication at another.

2. Frida created an list of words beginning with the same letter. What letter did she use?
(a) X.
(b) M.
(c) C.
(d) A.

3. Who does Frida dedicate two pages to?
(a) Emiliano Zapata.
(b) Leon Trotsky.
(c) Diego Rivera.
(d) Andre Breton.

4. What significance does the figure of a foot have to Frida?
(a) Lowe claims that the foot has to do with Frida's desire to move more freely.
(b) Lowe writes that this was an inside joke that she had with Diego.
(c) Lowe claims it is an ancient Mayan symbol of fertility.
(d) Lowe writes it may be related to the pain in her right foot.

5. To what does Lowe attribute Frida's "loose" handwriting in 1947?
(a) Depression.
(b) Anger.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Pain killers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What recipe does Frida include in her Diary?

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

3. Where did Carlos Fuentes first meet Frida?

4. What does "Xpcolatl" mean in Nahuatl?

5. What civilizations does Lowe wright were part of Kahlo's understanding of her "personal past"?

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