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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lowe argue is Frida's overall feeling toward life?
(a) Worry over her husband.
(b) A sense of happiness and humor.
(c) An interest in professional advancement keeps her going through difficulty.
(d) A feeling of pain and dispair.

2. Which of the following best describes the mood of Frida's cold weather image?
(a) Happy.
(b) Joyful.
(c) Sad.
(d) Stiff.

3. What does Lowe write is a "favorite device" of Frida's?
(a) "Ink strokes that form an undulating mesh of lines."
(b) "Having a friend begin an image and quickly finishing it, in an attempt to bypass the logical, thinking mind."
(c) "Spilling ink, then moving it around on the surface to create a Surrealist-style image."
(d) "Bringing interior physical forms to the surface, to show power relationships."

4. What did Frida's students note about Frida's Spanish?
(a) She enjoyed using double entendres.
(b) She had a uniqe way of speaking.
(c) She liked listening more than speaking.
(d) They could never hear her.

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

6. Where does Lowe write that Frida's work was first taken seriously (where she "made a decisive shift from amateur to professional painter")?
(a) In Germany.
(b) In the United States.
(c) In Mexico City, where Ines Amor organized an important exhibit.
(d) On a trip to Puerto Rico.

7. What did Andre Breton describe Frida Kahlo as?
(a) The most important woman in Mexican history.
(b) A lion, waiting on the bookshelf.
(c) The best painter of our century.
(d) A ribbon around a bombshell.

8. How long does Lowe write that Frida kept this Diary?
(a) Five years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) One year.
(d) Fifteen years.

9. What language does Frida write in (in what Lowe points out is the only time she cites a source other than herself)?
(a) Italian.
(b) English.
(c) German.
(d) French.

10. What obsession does Frida reveal in a long list?
(a) Her obsession with cooking.
(b) Her obsession with Diego Rivera.
(c) Her obsession with Surrealism.
(d) Her obsession with red paint.

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

12. What did Frida use to create the central images of the icy landscape in her diary?
(a) A sponge print.
(b) Blotted lipstick.
(c) Sauce that must have spilled onto the page.
(d) Ink that seeped through the previous page.

13. What does Lowe write that "naturaleza muerta" translates to in English?
(a) "Nature in death."
(b) "Natural death."
(c) "Still life."
(d) "Day of the Dead altar."

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

15. What is depicted on the first painted page of Frida's Diary?
(a) A poem.
(b) A favorite quotation.
(c) A kind of title page.
(d) Frida's favorite recipe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes the connection between entries in Frida's diary.

2. What are the carpas that Fuentes describes?

3. As her health began to decline, what kinds of images did Frida create fewer of?

4. Who did Frida write many letters to in the Diary?

5. In Frida's "portrait of Nefertidos," which cultures does Frida combine?

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