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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following best describe Frida's feeling for her husband?
(a) Respect.
(b) Devotion.
(c) Anger.
(d) Frustration.

3. In a double (or triple) portrait, that Lowe writes recalls The Two Fridas, which of the following does Lowe write that Kahlo illustrates?
(a) The violence of birth and death.
(b) The power struggle in a family.
(c) The stages of a woman's life.
(d) The strength of romantic life.

4. Which of the following subjects does Frida mention in a letter to her husband in the Diary?
(a) Food.
(b) Color.
(c) The Day of the Dead.
(d) Dollhouses.

5. What does Fuentes write happened in September of 1925 that changed Frida's life?
(a) She miscarried.
(b) An accident.
(c) She divorced for the first time.
(d) Her foot was amputated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following qualities does Lowe claim Frida shares with Surrealism?

2. How does Lowe claim Frida creates many of the dedications in the Diary?

3. What line of work was Frida's father in?

4. Frida created an list of words beginning with the same letter. What letter did she use?

5. Where did Carlos Fuentes first meet Frida?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Kahlo's experiences in the U.S. shape her artistic career?

2. How does Frida begin her diary?

3. What are some of the external sources that Fuentes finds for Kahlo's art?

4. What physical changes does Lowe write that the Diary documented?

5. What sentiments does Frida express in the first letter to Diego Rivera included in the Diary?

6. Frida labels an image "I am DISINTEGRATION." What is happening in that image?

7. Sarah M. Lowe writes about the acceptance of themes like "birthing or miscarriage" in Western art. How does this relate to Frida?

8. In what ways does Fuentes describe Mexico City of Frida's time as different from Mexico City today?

9. How does Lowe compare Kahlo's diary with "diarists, both men and women [who] have chronicled their lives framed by their times or by particular historical events"?

10. How does Fuentes characterize Frida's depiction of pain?

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