Frida
Complete the lyric written across the top of one of Kahlo's painting: "Look, if I loved you it was for your ______."
What is hair?
Before becoming "Jay Gatsby" James Gatz loafed around this Lake.
De Burgos grew up as the oldest of how many children.
What is 13?
"This is why writing Persepolis was so important to me. I believe that an entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few _________."
What is "extremists"?
This is the name of the book Ms. Dwyer recommended to us while reading Persepolis.
What is "The Lion Women of Tehran"?
In a famous letter written after her leg amputation, Frida writes that feet were unnecessary because she had these.
What are feet?
During the apartment party in NYC, who or what "was sitting on the table looking with blind eyes through the smoke and from time to time groaning faintly"
What is Myrtle's dog?
This is the name of the town that de Burgos grew up in.
What is Carolina?
Marji says "THE REVOLUTION IS LIKE A ____________. WHEN THE WHEELS DON'T TURN, IT FALLS."
What is a bicycle?
What is Track and Field?
In "Memory, the Heart" red veins create visual lines that connect Frida to this detached body part
What is the heart?
When meeting Wilson for the first time, Nick notes "A white ashen ________ veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity—except his wife, who moved close to Tom."
What is dust?
From which poem comes the line "the ponderous lady very lady"?
What is "To Julia de Burgos"?
In "The Key" the students used this to decorate the classroom for the anniversary of the revolution.
What is toilet paper?
This is the city Ms. Dwyer grew up in
What is San Diego?
A literary and artistic movement that blends reality and dreamlike imagery, whose label Kahlo rejected.
Surrealism
Gatsby's father brings a worn copy of ______ and points out his son's childhood schedule.
What is Hopalong Cassidy?
"Let's toast to the beautiful _________ of our bodies"
What is non-being?
When returning from vacation, Marji's Dad hid posters here to get them through customs.
What is the lining of his coat?
This is the college that Ms. Dwyer went to for Undergrad.
What is UCSB?
Frida explained her many self-portraits by saying, "I paint myself because I am so often ______."
What is alone?
"Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose ________________ face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan, scornful mouth smiled and so I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face."
What is disembodied?
What is "I Was the Quietest One"?
This happened to change Marji's Mother's mind about allowing Marji to marry Reza at 21.
What is a conversation with Marji's Father?
What is the name of Ms. Dwyer's Dad?
Who is Dean?