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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kahlo receive that helped her career to take off?
(a) The President's Award.
(b) Her own museum of art.
(c) The recommendation of other famous artists.
(d) International critical acclaim.

2. In 1950, Kahlo went to the hospital in Mexico City; how long did she stay there?
(a) One month.
(b) Three months.
(c) Six months.
(d) One year.

3. What type of teaching style did Kahlo use?
(a) Passive.
(b) Unstructured.
(c) Authoritative.
(d) Regimented.

4. Why type of movement did not catch on in Mexico despite the high hopes of Europeans?
(a) Resistance.
(b) Impressionism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Anarchist.

5. What did Kahlo write in her diary in Chapter 24?
(a) That she was scared of dying.
(b) That she wanted to die.
(c) That she wished she would have died years ago.
(d) That she knew she was dying.

6. In 1953, what was arranged in Mexico despite Kahlo's declining health?
(a) A dinner honoring Rivera and Kahlo.
(b) A one-person art exhibit honoring her.
(c) A public demonstration of her painting.
(d) A party to celebrate her birthday.

7. How did Kahlo's doctors feel about her heading to Mexico in Chapter 23?
(a) They told her she will die if she leaves.
(b) They told her to be careful.
(c) They told her she will be fine.
(d) They forbid her to move.

8. How did Kahlo disguise her artificial body part?
(a) By wearing gloves.
(b) By wearing flowing skirts.
(c) By wearing long sleeved shirts.
(d) By wearing boots.

9. Who did Rivera fall in love with and even thought about leaving Kahlo for?
(a) Marcia Fuentes.
(b) Mary Fuller.
(c) Maria Felix.
(d) Maugerite Fowler.

10. What physical aspect about Rivera did Kahlo laugh at?
(a) The way he dresses.
(b) His size.
(c) His bread.
(d) His hair.

11. Why did Kahlo request that her students come to see her at her home instead of at the school?
(a) She wanted the students to use her tools.
(b) She was no longer welcome at the school.
(c) The long commute was taxing her health.
(d) She disliked the impersonal setting of the school.

12. What did Kahlo claim that she never knew she was until it was put upon her in Paris?
(a) Being a Resistance fighter.
(b) Being an Impressionist.
(c) Being a Surrealist.
(d) Being an Anarchist.

13. As Kahlo's health declined, her devotion to Communism intensified; what did she add to her portraits?
(a) Tiny portraits of politicians.
(b) Flags and inscriptions.
(c) Animals.
(d) Flowers.

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

15. How was Kahlo's affair in Chapter 13 discovered?
(a) A delivery man accidentally handed the invoice to Kahlo for appliances that were to be delivered to Kahlo's apartment.
(b) A delivery man accidentally handed the invoice to Kahlo for furniture that was to be delivered to Kahlo's apartment.
(c) A delivery man accidentally handed the invoice to Kahlo for a piano that was to be delivered to Kahlo's apartment.
(d) A delivery man accidentally handed the invoice to Kahlo for clothes that were to be delivered to Kahlo's apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Rivera and Kahlo tell the press was the reason of their divorce?

2. What did Kahlo and Rivera say the success of their marriage depended on besides humor, social conscience, intelligence?

3. What did Kahlo give Trotsky after ending their affair in Chapter 14?

4. What was the name of the painting that Kahlo created to depict the pain she was suffering through?

5. How many students remained loyal to Kahlo and maintained a friendship with her for years?

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