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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. Why was the loss of a body part such a huge blow to Kahlo?

2. What began to happen as Kahlo started to lose her grip on life?

3. How did Kahlo treat Rivera during their marriage?

4. Who did Kahlo and Rivera turn away and break their political views from in Chapter 15?

5. Who did Kahlo have an affair with, that went so far as the two of them got an apartment together?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Frida's painting, My Nurse and I, represent?

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

4. How did Frida become as her illness worsened?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Frida and Rivera's involvement with Trotsky became an important one because of his political implications. Examine Trotskyism and analyze its affect on Frida and Rivera. Who was Leon Trotsky? What was Trotskyism and how did Rivera and Frida become interested? What was Frida's relationship to Trotsky? What country was Leon Trotsky from? Why did he come to Mexico?

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

In Chapter 15 of Frida, a Biography of Frida Kahlo, Frida sailed to Paris where she learned more about the Surrealist movement. Research the Surrealist movement and analyze its affect on Frida. Where did the Surrealism movement begin? What is a Surrealist? How was Frida introduced into Surrealism? How was Frida's artwork affected by the Surrealism movement?

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