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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 patron who commissioned Kahlo to paint a portrait for the New York Opening of Kahlo's art exhibit?
(a) Cameron Bass Larance.
(b) Cassandra Barely Lott.
(c) Contance Blithe Lully.
(d) Clare Boothe Luce.

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

3. What did Kahlo begin to do in Chapter 13 that made her behavior seem less civilized and more "indecent'?
(a) She started wearing less clothing.
(b) She started swearing.
(c) She started using drugs.
(d) She started to drink more and more.

4. What movement did Kahlo learn about while staying in Paris?
(a) Impressionism movement.
(b) The Surrealist movement.
(c) Resistance movement.
(d) Anarchist movement.

5. What did Kahlo refuse to do with her paintings, despite her need to sell paintings to live?
(a) Sell at discount prices.
(b) Make her work more salable in order to gain profits.
(c) Mass produce her work.
(d) Do more self-portraits for people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kahlo and Rivera start keeping as pets as child-like replacements?

2. How did Kahlo's relationship with Rivera begin to change after they moved into the San Angel house?

3. What did Kahlo do a month after her divorce became final and was the same thing she did when learning of her husband's affair with her sister?

4. What was the name of the painting that Kahlo created that she says has special importance to her in Chapter 16?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why didn''t Surrealism catch on in Mexico?

3. How was Frida's approach to Surrealism different than European Surrealists?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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