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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Lowe write that Frida feels about Nefertiti?
2. What did Andre Breton describe Frida Kahlo as?
3. 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)?
4. Who does Lowe write does Frida draw in the Diary and use in a painting titled Moses?
5. Frida created an list of words beginning with the same letter. What letter did she use?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Fuentes characterize foreign invasions of Mexico?
2. Why does Frida claim she was born in 1910?
3. Describe Frida's appearance, and the importance of her appearance, to Carlos Fuentes.
4. What is in the image that Frida labels "The Phenomenon Unforseen"?
5. Who does Kahlo write a "melancholy" letter to in her Diary?
6. How does Lowe describe Frida's planning process for the images in the Diary?
7. How did Kahlo's experiences in the U.S. shape her artistic career?
8. What does Frida write about giving birth?
9. What physical changes does Lowe write that the Diary documented?
10. In Frida's first string of words, which one is the one that Lowe singles out as the only word with a specific reference?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Fuentes writes that Frida was a member of the Communist party from an early age, but that her "politics, such as they were, could not be separated from the personality and the actions of Diego Rivera." Lowe writes that she understood Communism in a religious way. Based on both the text and images in her Diary, how do you think that Frida understood Communism?
Essay Topic 2
Lowe compares the reception of Frida's self-portraits (sometimes thought "excessively personal and self-referential") to those of Rembrant and VanGogh (who, she claims, express sentiments "considered applicable to all of 'mankind'"). Explain whether or not you believe that Frida's artistic expression is something that could be universally understood.
Essay Topic 3
How does Kahlo's early interest in physiology and biology affect her art? What does Lowe write is her most common biological and botanical metaphor? How do you see this used throughout the Diary?
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