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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fuentes claim have been the worst traumas for Mexico?
(a) Foreign interventions.
(b) The Hacendado's abuses of power.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Sexism in the arts.

2. What writing reveals that, as Lowe writes, "Kahlo came to her senses"?
(a) Her writing that Diego "belongs to himself."
(b) Her statement "I am responsible for myself."
(c) Her writing "my body will not give out unless my spirit dims."
(d) Her statement that "he has brought me more pain than joy."

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

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

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

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

7. Who is Jaqueline Lamba?
(a) An Existential philosopher.
(b) A poet.
(c) A famous chef.
(d) A Surrealist painter.

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

9. 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) Censorship.
(b) Misunderstandings about specifications.
(c) Unfair working conditions.
(d) Lack of payment.

10. Which of the following does Frida use in her Diary?
(a) Lipstick.
(b) Blood.
(c) Crayons.
(d) Oil paints.

11. What does "Xpcolatl" mean in Nahuatl?
(a) Paint.
(b) Roots.
(c) Corn.
(d) Chocolate.

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

13. How does Lowe explain that reading the Diary may affect our viewing of Kahlo's paintings?
(a) We may see Frida as more human.
(b) We may understand how physical pain limited Frida.
(c) We may understand just how much Frida lived in her husband's shadow.
(d) We may begin to grasp how much time Frida spent alone, and why she painted self-portraits.

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

15. 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) The Brooklyn Bridge.
(b) A rainbow.
(c) The solar system.
(d) A dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lowe describe the act of reading Kahlo's diary?

2. How does Lowe write that the text Kahlo includes in the images in her Diary affect the viewers understanding of the image?

3. What movement has Frida been associated with?

4. Who is Jose Guadalupe Posada?

5. What is a retablo?

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