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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. Which of the following is the central image in a page labeled "I love Diego"?

2. Which of the following best describes Kahlo's relationship with artist Hieronymus Bosh?

3. Who is in the image labeled "What a dish!"?

4. After writing, "I am no longer alone," who does Frida write that she loves?

5. Why does Frida create a list of things she is thankful for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Frida alter an erotic photo of a woman?

2. What is the Eyesaurus.

3. What does Frida write about Stalin?

4. What does Frida write about her leg?

5. Frida creates a winged figure, and writes about Diego. What does she write about Diego in this entry?

6. Describe the two vases that Frida depicts crying.

7. How does Frida categorize her art?

8. How does Frida describe life after her leg is amputated?

9. Frida uses the signature Sadja. What does this mean?

10. What image does Lowe write that Frida paints from "a worm's-eye view"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sarah M. Lowe writes that the Diary documents Frida's physical decline. Do you agree or disagree? What evidence can you find in the Diary itself? What other trends can we see in the Diary entries over time?

Essay Topic 2

Frida creates a two page entry in memory of her poet friend Isabel "Chabela" Villasenor, who died shortly before she created them. She also created her own kind of free-association poems. How would you describe Frida's use of poetry? Is there a relationship between her poems and her art?

Essay Topic 3

Fuentes writes that Frida's physical pain mirrors the traumas of the Mexican nation. Lowe writes that despite the pain that is evident in her diary, her humor and "alegria" show through. What role do you think Frida's pain plays in her Diary? What is the role of pain in her context? Do you think that her pain has anything to do with her country? Her time? What role do you think it plays in her work as a whole? How do you think it has affected acceptance for, or interest in, her work?

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