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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pair of drawings does Frida label "Don't come crying to me!" and "Yes, I come crying to you"?
(a) Drawings of a pot and pan.
(b) Drawings of birds.
(c) Drawings of vases.
(d) Drawings of Diego Rivera and a model working with him.

2. What does Lowe write that it means when she paints her right foot?
(a) It is a comical referrence to Diego Rivera's delicate painting of women's feet.
(b) This foot brought her pain, so she may have been focused on pain.
(c) The foot was a Toltec symbol.
(d) It is a reflection on her childhood illness that affected this foot.

3. Which of the following best characterizes the sentiments that Frida expresses in her Diary toward her husband?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Concern.
(d) Love.

4. What recipe does Frida include in her Diary?
(a) An Aztec recipe for verdolagas, also called purslane.
(b) A recipe for deer food.
(c) A recipe for salsa.
(d) A recipe for paint.

5. What does Frida draw hanging from a clothesline?
(a) Bright lights.
(b) Monkeys.
(c) Men.
(d) Women in long dresses.

6. Who is Mr. Xolotl?
(a) A dog.
(b) A Mexican ambasador to the U.K.
(c) A poet from Coyoacan.
(d) Frida's name for a kind of tree.

7. What does Lowe write makes a winged creature "speak to Kahlo's wholly subjective image of herself"?
(a) An artificial leg.
(b) A cast.
(c) A trail of blood.
(d) A long Oaxacan skirt.

8. Who did Frida give a painting to that she dated November 7, 1946?
(a) Diego Rivera.
(b) Leon Trotsky.
(c) Maria Izquierdo.
(d) Remedios Varo.

9. After writing, "I am no longer alone," who does Frida write that she loves?
(a) Her father.
(b) Diego Rivera.
(c) Mao.
(d) Tina Modoti.

10. Which of the following did Frida write over an image of a foot?
(a) "Artist, wife... I will dance."
(b) "Long live the dance. Long live health!"
(c) "Ancient symbol of direction."
(d) "Walker, dancer... Revolutionary..."

11. As the Diary progresses, what does Lowe write that Frida gives an increasing amount of attention to?
(a) Her family history.
(b) Diego Rivera.
(c) Her childhood.
(d) Communism.

12. What does Frida write over and over, in bubbles surrounding an angel?
(a) Harmony.
(b) Pain.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Love.

13. Who does Frida write that she would like to serve as a "craftswoman"?
(a) The Communist party.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her local market.
(d) The president of her country.

14. Who is in the image labeled "What a dish!"?
(a) Frida.
(b) Diego Rivera.
(c) An unknown young woman.
(d) Emiliano Zapata, a revolutionary.

15. Where does Frida sit in an image of her holding Diego Rivera as her child?
(a) On the lap of a woman who personifies the universe.
(b) In the middle of a desert landscape.
(c) On an oversized leaf.
(d) On the lap of a woman who personifies Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lowe write to explain the piece The Two Fridas, painted in 1939?

2. What does Frida write is the most precious thing?

3. What number repeats in Frida's diary?

4. Which of the following does Frida mention multiple times in the Diary?

5. What does Lowe write that Frida's "primative, ancient animal" creation recalls?

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