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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, This Pinchisimo Paris and Chapter 16, What the Water Gave Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were people starting to find fault with Rivera's work?
(a) Some thought it obscene; others sacrilegious.
(b) Some that he used too much color.
(c) Some thought he relied too much on Kahlo.
(d) Some thought he copied other's work.

2. Who did Kahlo and Rivera turn away and break their political views from in Chapter 15?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Trotsky.
(d) Lenin.

3. Who did Rivera start to hear complaints from regarding who he had taken commissions from?
(a) His Communist party.
(b) His family and friends.
(c) His wife, Kahlo.
(d) His Capitalist party.

4. What did Kahlo delight in doing to the New York press?
(a) Making fun of them and watching them squirm.
(b) Creating paintings depicting them.
(c) Avoding them.
(d) Talking to them.

5. Since she couldn't spend all day alone, who did Kahlo visit with for entertainment while in Paris?
(a) Natalia Trotsky.
(b) Marcel Duchamp.
(c) Andre Breton.
(d) Jacqueline Breton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kahlo claim that she never knew she was until it was put upon her in Paris?

2. What did an article in the New York World-Telegram call Rivera's unfinished mural?

3. What type of surgeon was the doctor that Kahlo met in America, who helped her the rest of her life?

4. How old was Rivera when he began work at the National Preparatory School?

5. Who was elected president of the National Student Confederation in 1929?

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