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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. What was the name of the painting that Kahlo created that she says has special importance to her in Chapter 16?
(a) What the Sun Gave Me.
(b) What the Water Gave Me.
(c) What the Earth Gave Me.
(d) What the Air Gave Me.

2. How many students remained loyal to Kahlo and maintained a friendship with her for years?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

3. How did the students that Kahlo taught feel about her?
(a) They hated her.
(b) They adored her.
(c) They were scared of her.
(d) They mocked her.

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

5. What two cities did Kahlo visit in order to participate in a show in Chapter 19?
(a) New York City and Mexico City.
(b) San Francisco and Detroit.
(c) New York City and Detroit.
(d) Mexico City and San Francisco.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came to live with Rivera and Kahlo after living in nine years of exile?

2. Why did Kahlo request that her students come to see her at her home instead of at the school?

3. What painting did Kahlo finish the day after her divorce papers came through?

4. What type of teaching style did Kahlo use?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was Frida invited to teach and what was her teaching style?

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

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

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

5. What did Frida paint for the patron Clare Boothe Luce, who commissioned a portrait for the New York Opening of Frida's art exhibit?

6. What affair of Rivera's particularly affected Frida in Chapter 21?

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

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

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

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

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