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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21, Portraits of a Marriage and Chapter 22, Naturaleza Viva: Alive Still Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Kahlo's family into penury, whereas before they had lived a comfortable lifestyle?
(a) His illness.
(b) Their mother' illness.
(c) The Mexican Revolution.
(d) The recession.

2. Kahlo's mother tried to raise her daughters with a traditional Mexican upbringing; what two things did she enforce?
(a) Plowing the fields and musical talent.
(b) Mending clothes and yardwork.
(c) Learning how to cook and attending religious services regularly.
(d) Cleaning the house and religious study.

3. What did Kahlo destroy in order to highlight her loneliness and demonstrate her defiant feelings to be left alone?
(a) All aspects of her female sexuality.
(b) Anything that reminds her of Rivera.
(c) Her home.
(d) Her telephone.

4. What did the doctors prescribe for Kahlo after she recovered from her illness?
(a) More rest.
(b) Physical exercise.
(c) A pill she had to take every day.
(d) Reading to help her eyesight.

5. How soon did Kahlo's first relapse come after her accident?
(a) Two years.
(b) A year.
(c) Three months.
(d) Six months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kahlo do upon hearing about Rivera's different conquests?

2. How did the students that Kahlo taught feel about her?

3. What did Kahlo borrow from Rivera in Chapter 7?

4. What did Kahlo's father say to Rivera to warn him about his daughter?

5. How would the stories that Rivera told be described?

(see the answer key)

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