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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Rivera when he and Kahlo remarried?
(a) Forty-four.
(b) Thirty-four.
(c) Sixty-four.
(d) Fifty-four.

2. Who was listed as a prime suspect in the attempted assassination of Trotsky?
(a) Kahlo.
(b) Muray.
(c) Rivera.
(d) Marin.

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

4. What did Kahlo and Rivera start keeping as pets as child-like replacements?
(a) Cats.
(b) Birds.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Monkeys.

5. How was Kahlo's affair in Chapter 13 discovered?
(a) A delivery man accidentally handed the invoice to Kahlo for a piano that was to be delivered to Kahlo's apartment.
(b) A delivery man accidentally handed the invoice to Kahlo for appliances that were to be delivered to Kahlo's apartment.
(c) A delivery man accidentally handed the invoice to Kahlo for furniture 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. How did the students that Kahlo taught feel about her?

2. What type of relationships did Kahlo begin to explore that Rivera looked upon favorably?

3. Whose children came to represent family for Kahlo since she couldn't have children of her own?

4. How did Kahlo change after Rivera's affair became public?

5. At what school was Kahlo was invited to teach?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Frida's painting career begin to take off in Chapter 19?

2. Why did Frida have her leg amputated, and how did it affect her?

3. What did the success of Rivera and Frida's marriage depend upon?

4. Did Frida ever forgive her sister for having an affair with Rivera?

5. How did Rivera and Frida's friends describe their marriage in Chapter 21?

6. Despite Frida's declining heath, how did she attend an art exhibit honoring her in 1953?

7. What did Rivera and Frida tell the press was the reason for their divorce?

8. In 1950, Frida became very ill and remained in the hospital for over a year; how did she decorate her room?

9. In Chapter 13, how was Frida and Rivera's relationship symbolized by the house that they lived in?

10. What did Frida write in her diary just days before her death?

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