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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kahlo refuse to do with her paintings, despite her need to sell paintings to live?

2. What did Kahlo claim that she never knew she was until it was put upon her in Paris?

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

4. What painting did Kahlo create that was a shock to people, and brought an already-difficult subject in the foreground by painting right into the frame?

5. In Chapter 19, in what type of show did Kahlo participate?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Frida become as her illness worsened?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After Frida and Rivera were married, Frida spent a great deal of time learning how to be a wife to Rivera. Research Mexican traditions and examine what Frida did in Chapter 8 to strive and meet those standards in her marriage. What traits were important for a traditional Mexican wife? What did Frida's mother try to instill in her daughters so they could be proper wives and mothers? How did Rivera feel about Frida being a proper traditional Mexican wife? What did Frida strive to do after she married Rivera? Did she stop painting?

Essay Topic 2

While Rivera was working on his mural in New York, the environment became hostile. His mural was being called hostile because he wanted to pain the head of Lenin and balance it with the head of Abraham Lincoln. Evaluate the differences between communism and capitalism, two movements that were mentioned in the biography. What is communism? What is capitalism? What would Mexico and America be considered at that time? Why wouldn't a communist painting be appreciated in America? Why was Rivera for communism? What was Frida in support of?

Essay Topic 3

Frida and Rivera were both artists, and both very well known. Yet, they had styles that were entirely their own. Examine the changes in Frida's painting style , and compare her painting to Rivera's. How did Frida and Rivera's painting styles differ? How were they the same? Did they rely on each other for advice with their painting? Did they use water colors, chalk, or pencils? How was their particular painting style reflective of their personality?

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