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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. Whose children came to represent family for Kahlo since she couldn't have children of her own?
(a) Maria's.
(b) Cristina's.
(c) Calista's.
(d) Matilde's.

2. What did Kahlo do to Rivera in hopes of gaining his attention while he was at the National Preparatory Academy?
(a) She flirted with him every chance she got.
(b) She threw herself at his feet.
(c) Stole food from him and soaped the stairway from the stage he was painting on, in the hopes that he would fall.
(d) She put on her prettiest dress and wore make-up.

3. What did Kahlo's painting in Chapter 5 seem to represent?
(a) A synthesis of life.
(b) The pain of growing up.
(c) A culmination of ideas.
(d) The possibilites of life that were so far away from the broken Kahlo.

4. What was the name of the painting that Kahlo created that indicated she had had yet another miscarriage?
(a) My Baby.
(b) My Tears.
(c) My Broken Heart.
(d) My Nurse and I.

5. What was the strongest reason that Kahlo is permitted to attend such an impressive school as the National Preparatory School?
(a) Her mother, Matilde.
(b) Her father, Alejandro.
(c) Her father, Guillermo.
(d) Her mother, Maria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Kahlo selected to be for Seminario de Cultura Mexicana?

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

3. What happened to Kahlo on September 17, 1925 that forever altered her life?

4. Why type of movement did not catch on in Mexico despite the high hopes of Europeans?

5. Who did Kahlo have an affair with, that went so far as the two of them got an apartment together?

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