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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What characterizes the poems on the first several pages of the Diary?
(a) Colorful, erratic writing.
(b) Aztec influences.
(c) Long strings of unrelated words.
(d) Rhymes.

2. What figures can be found in the image that Frida labeled "Naturaleza bien muerta"?
(a) A hanging hand.
(b) A spoon.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A pile of what appears to be vomit.

3. What does Frida label her cold climate image?
(a) Arctic Foot.
(b) Remote Snows.
(c) Polar landscape.
(d) Snowy Diego.

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

5. What style does Fuentes claim was "in tune with the tastes of the Mexican elite" around the turn of the century?
(a) A surrealist style that influenced architecture at the time.
(b) An Italian ornate style.
(c) A German born style emphasizing contrast.
(d) An indigenous geometric style.

6. Who is Xipe Totec?
(a) A Mayan war god.
(b) Our Lady of the Mountain Top
(c) The central Aztec goddess.
(d) Our Lord of the Flayed Skin.

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

8. What does Lowe write that Surrealists believed "automatic drawing" was useful for?
(a) Party games.
(b) Creating new ways of looking at things.
(c) Accessing the subconscious.
(d) Finding surprising combinations.

9. Which of the following techniques does Lowe write that Kahlo used?
(a) Wax spills.
(b) Ink spills.
(c) "Automatic," or free association games with human and animal body parts.
(d) Random scratching to the paper.

10. What does the use of the "third eye" signify in the "Portrait of Neferunico"?
(a) "Her love of foreign things."
(b) "Her interest in unusual biological forms."
(c) "The power of her intuitive insight."
(d) "Her connection to India."

11. What year does Fuentes write that the Mexican Revolution began?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1907.

12. Which of the following describe the mood of Frida's depiction of her animals.
(a) Mournful.
(b) Playful.
(c) Humorous.
(d) Sadistic.

13. What aspect of Rembrandt and Van Gogh's work does Lowe compare to Kahlo's?
(a) The use of the eyes to convey pain.
(b) Use of costume to convey a message.
(c) Use of coded symbols.
(d) Their reception.

14. One of the first images creates in her diary is "connect-the-dots ink drawing." Which of the following figures can be found in the drawing?
(a) A rainbow.
(b) The solar system.
(c) A dog.
(d) The Brooklyn Bridge.

15. How does Lowe write that Frida's understanding of Communism changes?
(a) Frida's understanding is based on what Diego Rivera teaches her.
(b) Frida becomes more and more interested in the local politics of the Communist party.
(c) She connects it to her hatred of the U.S.
(d) It becomes more like a religious faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the Mexican Revolution, what culture does Fuentes write influenced Mexico and Latin America?

2. Lowe quotes Kahlo as writing that anguish and pain were both which of the following?

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

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

5. What does Frida place in an icy landscape?

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