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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 does Lowe write about Frida's relationships with women?
(a) Some were consumated, while others were not.
(b) She was constantly seeking female friends to discuss her marriage.
(c) She was competitive with women artists.
(d) She felt competition with women because her husband was romantically interested in her female friends.

2. How does Lowe write that Frida changes as she writes this Diary?
(a) She declines physically.
(b) She becomes increasingly interested in expanding her artistic influences.
(c) She becomes more interested in her professional career as an artist.
(d) She becomes more and more reclusive.

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

4. How does Carlos Fuentes claim he first met Frida Kahlo?
(a) He was introduced by a mutual friend.
(b) He had to ask her to take care of her dog.
(c) He smelled her perfume.
(d) He heard her.

5. What are the carpas that Fuentes describes?
(a) Tents that were the stage for satire in proletariat "barrios."
(b) A term for old neighborhoods, like Coyoacan, that were once separate from Mexico City, but became part of the city as it grew.
(c) Layers of "resentimiento," or popular resentment as the ideals of the Revolution were touted as realized in government.
(d) A term for the typical cooking utensils that Adelitas, women who participated in the Revolution, typically carried on their backs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Frida write in (in what Lowe points out is the only time she cites a source other than herself)?

2. Who is Jose Guadalupe Posada?

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

4. Which best describes how Fuentes characterizes Frida's speech?

5. What does Lowe write that Surrealists believed "automatic drawing" was useful for?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Frida's first string of words, which one is the one that Lowe singles out as the only word with a specific reference?

2. What device does Lowe claim that Frida frequently uses? (She uses this for human forms, roots, and other organic figures.)

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

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

5. 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"?

6. What is automatic drawing?

7. Why does Lowe claim that Frida included a bride in her painting The Bride Who Becomes Frightened When She Sees Life Open?

8. Describe Frida's appearance, and the importance of her appearance, to Carlos Fuentes.

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

10. In what ways does Fuentes write that Kahlo mirrors the Revolution in her art?

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