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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 156 to 183.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Frida write that she is working on a painting for?
(a) Juan Farill, her doctor.
(b) Matilde, her mother who has already died.
(c) A portrait of Diego Rivera, as a birthday present.
(d) Maria, her sister.

2. Who is the Olmedo that Kahlo refers to in the first few pages of her poem?
(a) Dolores Olmedo, a friend.
(b) Juan Olmedo, a doctor.
(c) Ines Olmedo, a model.
(d) Francisco Olmedo, a boyfriend from her youth.

3. Who does Frida credit with the fact that she is "no longer alone"?
(a) Pain medication.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Marx and Engles.
(d) Diego Rivera.

4. What are the carpas that Fuentes describes?
(a) A term for the typical cooking utensils that Adelitas, women who participated in the Revolution, typically carried on their backs.
(b) Tents that were the stage for satire in proletariat "barrios."
(c) A term for old neighborhoods, like Coyoacan, that were once separate from Mexico City, but became part of the city as it grew.
(d) Layers of "resentimiento," or popular resentment as the ideals of the Revolution were touted as realized in government.

5. What figures are included in the image Frida labels "DEATH IN A RIOT"?
(a) Food stands.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Cacti.
(d) Skeletons.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Lowe write that Frida kept this Diary?

2. Where did Carlos Fuentes first meet Frida?

3. Who does Frida address an eight page letter to in the Diary?

4. In 1944, Lowe writes that Kahlo painted herself with someone else, merged into a single head. Who was this?

5. What does Frida equate with being alive?

(see the answer key)

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