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

2. What did Kahlo decorate her hospital room with in Chapter 22?
(a) Pictures from her past.
(b) Flowers and plants.
(c) Her paintings.
(d) Painted sugar skulls and candelabra.

3. What was the name of the painting that Kahlo created to depict the pain she was suffering through?
(a) The Little Dove.
(b) The Little Deer.
(c) The Little Lamb.
(d) The Little Bird.

4. Who stated to the Mexican press that he no longer had "moral solidarity" with Rivera?
(a) Lenin.
(b) Breton.
(c) Duchamp.
(d) Trotsky.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Kahlo treat Rivera during their marriage?

2. What was the name of the patron who commissioned Kahlo to paint a portrait for the New York Opening of Kahlo's art exhibit?

3. What did Kahlo receive that helped her career to take off?

4. How did Kahlo disguise her artificial body part?

5. What movement began to lose popularity in the 1940's, and Kahlo resisted being associated with a dying trend?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Rivera's affair with sculptor Isamu Noguchi revealed?

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

3. Which students continued to work with Frida even after she started teaching from home?

4. What did Frida do to herself one month after her divorce with Rivera became final?

5. What did Frida's painting, The Little Deer represent?

6. In 1939, Frida sailed to Paris; how did she first feel about the city?

7. How did Frida become as her illness worsened?

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

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

10. What painting did Kahlo create the day her divorce papers came through, and what did it represent?

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