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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Frida's students note about Frida's Spanish?
(a) She enjoyed using double entendres.
(b) They could never hear her.
(c) She had a uniqe way of speaking.
(d) She liked listening more than speaking.

2. What does Fuentes write happened in September of 1925 that changed Frida's life?
(a) She miscarried.
(b) Her foot was amputated.
(c) She divorced for the first time.
(d) An accident.

3. What figures can be found in the image that Frida labeled "Naturaleza bien muerta"?
(a) A hanging hand.
(b) A spoon.
(c) A pile of what appears to be vomit.
(d) An eagle.

4. In Frida's "portrait of Nefertidos," which cultures does Frida combine?
(a) Mexican, American, and French.
(b) Aztec, Hindu, and Egyptian.
(c) French, German, and Italian.
(d) Mayan, German, and Egyptian.

5. Which of the following best describe Frida's feeling for her husband?
(a) Devotion.
(b) Anger.
(c) Frustration.
(d) Respect.

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

7. What "path" does Lowe write that Frida illuminates in this Diary?
(a) "The path toward love."
(b) "The artist's path."
(c) "The path of a consummate artist."
(d) "The path toward death."

8. What does Fuentes cite Virgina Woolf as writing on pain?
(a) It is the one thing that all humanity shares.
(b) It is undescribable.
(c) It affects women more than men.
(d) It is deeply personal.

9. What does Lowe write about Frida's relationships with women?
(a) She was competitive with women artists.
(b) She was constantly seeking female friends to discuss her marriage.
(c) Some were consumated, while others were not.
(d) She felt competition with women because her husband was romantically interested in her female friends.

10. Who does Lowe write "cemented" the association of Frida and Surrealism?
(a) Diego Rivera.
(b) Jose Clemente Orozco.
(c) Jose Vasconcelos.
(d) Andre Breton.

11. Who did Frida write many letters to in the Diary?
(a) Dolores Olmedo.
(b) Juan Olmedo, her doctor.
(c) Ana Kahlo, her sister.
(d) Diego Rivera.

12. How does Frida describe "desire"?
(a) As "communication from the gods."
(b) As "what binds me to Diego."
(c) As "a dream we must attempt to prolong."
(d) As "the one who gave birth to herself."

13. Who is Xipe Totec?
(a) A Mayan war god.
(b) The central Aztec goddess.
(c) Our Lady of the Mountain Top
(d) Our Lord of the Flayed Skin.

14. How does Lowe describe Frida's planning of the paintings in her Diary?
(a) They were planned in writing.
(b) They were unplanned.
(c) They were, themselves, used to plan more formal paintings.
(d) They were meticulously planned.

15. What year does Fuentes write that the Mexican Revolution began?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1910.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pets does Lowe mentioned Frida keeps?

2. How does Fuentes compare the bloodshed of the Mexican Revolution and the "executions ordered by Hitler and Stalin"?

3. Frida creates an image of herself falling apart from the top of a column. What does she label this image?

4. What does Lowe claims motivate Kahlo's writing the Diary?

5. How does Lowe claim Frida creates many of the dedications in the Diary?

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