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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. What Tiffany art object does Carlos Fuentes describe?
(a) A beautiful lamp shade.
(b) A glass curtain.
(c) Frida's earrings.
(d) A diamond studded leash.

2. Who does Frida address an eight page letter to in the Diary?
(a) Her father, though he died years earlier.
(b) Her sister, Matilda.
(c) Jose Clemente Orozco.
(d) Diego Rivera.

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

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

5. How does Lowe write that Frida feels about Nefertiti?
(a) She wishes she were as famous.
(b) She wants to learn mroe about heer.
(c) She admires her power.
(d) She identifies with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lowe write creates an "aura of illness" in one of the illustrations in the Diary?

2. What does Frida write on the page that she fills with faces in bubbles?

3. What was Kahlo's relationship with Lamba?

4. How does Fuentes characterize the kinds of escapes from reality Andre Breton "was legislating as law" in France compared to Latin America?

5. What does Fuentes cite Virgina Woolf as writing on pain?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Fuentes compare the work of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo?

2. How does Lowe describe Frida's relationship with Surrealism?

3. How does Lowe describe Frida's planning process for the images in the Diary?

4. 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"?

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

6. How does Fuentes characterize foreign invasions of Mexico?

7. Who does Kahlo write a "melancholy" letter to in her Diary?

8. What characterized Frida's "poetry"?

9. What does Kahlo connect to ink, and why does Lowe write that this is illuminating "with respect to her own creativity"?

10. How does Fuentes describe the relationship between Kahlo's art and Surrealism?

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