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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frida write on the page that she fills with faces in bubbles?
(a) "You can't take them anywhere."
(b) "Must stay separate."
(c) "Not a friendly face in the crowd!"
(d) "How ugly people are!"

2. What does Lowe notice about Kahlo's images of nude women?
(a) They are stronger figures than her vulnerable male nudes.
(b) They are "strewn about in a vulgar manner," and they are "perhaps overly used."
(c) They are "virtually never shown as objects of desire."
(d) They are all painted in a very different manner from her own nude self-portraits.

3. Which of the following best describes the mood of Frida's cold weather image?
(a) Stiff.
(b) Happy.
(c) Sad.
(d) Joyful.

4. Who is Jaqueline Lamba?
(a) A famous chef.
(b) A poet.
(c) An Existential philosopher.
(d) A Surrealist painter.

5. What does Kahlo liken to ink?
(a) Oil.
(b) Salsa.
(c) Blood.
(d) Wine.

6. How does Lowe write that Frida changes as she writes this Diary?
(a) She becomes more and more reclusive.
(b) She becomes more interested in her professional career as an artist.
(c) She becomes increasingly interested in expanding her artistic influences.
(d) She declines physically.

7. How did Kahlo paint Dorothy Hale?
(a) After a bloody fight.
(b) In her own husband's embrace.
(c) Jumping from a building.
(d) Nude, in a lush landscape.

8. What does the use of the "third eye" signify in the "Portrait of Neferunico"?
(a) "Her connection to India."
(b) "Her interest in unusual biological forms."
(c) "The power of her intuitive insight."
(d) "Her love of foreign things."

9. What style does Fuentes claim was "in tune with the tastes of the Mexican elite" around the turn of the century?
(a) An indigenous geometric style.
(b) An Italian ornate style.
(c) A surrealist style that influenced architecture at the time.
(d) A German born style emphasizing contrast.

10. Who does Lowe write does Frida draw in the Diary and use in a painting titled Moses?
(a) Andre Breton.
(b) Engles.
(c) Nefertiti.
(d) Moses.

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

12. In a double (or triple) portrait, that Lowe writes recalls The Two Fridas, which of the following does Lowe write that Kahlo illustrates?
(a) The power struggle in a family.
(b) The stages of a woman's life.
(c) The strength of romantic life.
(d) The violence of birth and death.

13. What animals does Frida paint playing with string?
(a) Bulls.
(b) Birds.
(c) Cats.
(d) Dogs.

14. Who does Fuentes write is like Frida, "hiding her tortured body"?
(a) Maria Izquierdo.
(b) Adelitas, women involved in the Mexican Revolution.
(c) A broken Cleopatra.
(d) The Virgin of Guadalupe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What writing reveals that, as Lowe writes, "Kahlo came to her senses"?

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

3. What movement has Frida been associated with?

4. How does Lowe write that Frida feels about Nefertiti?

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

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