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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Tiffany art object does Carlos Fuentes describe?
(a) A beautiful lamp shade.
(b) A diamond studded leash.
(c) Frida's earrings.
(d) A glass curtain.

3. What does Fuentes claim have been the worst traumas for Mexico?
(a) Corruption.
(b) Foreign interventions.
(c) Sexism in the arts.
(d) The Hacendado's abuses of power.

4. How does Lowe explain that reading the Diary may affect our viewing of Kahlo's paintings?
(a) We may see Frida as more human.
(b) We may begin to grasp how much time Frida spent alone, and why she painted self-portraits.
(c) We may understand how physical pain limited Frida.
(d) We may understand just how much Frida lived in her husband's shadow.

5. What did Frida use to create the central images of the icy landscape in her diary?
(a) Blotted lipstick.
(b) Ink that seeped through the previous page.
(c) Sauce that must have spilled onto the page.
(d) A sponge print.

6. What does Lowe argue is Frida's overall feeling toward life?
(a) Worry over her husband.
(b) An interest in professional advancement keeps her going through difficulty.
(c) A sense of happiness and humor.
(d) A feeling of pain and dispair.

7. As Frida's health declined, what does Lowe claim she painted more and more of?
(a) Nudes.
(b) Skeletons.
(c) Images of couples.
(d) Fruits and vegetables.

8. What did Andre Breton describe Frida Kahlo as?
(a) A lion, waiting on the bookshelf.
(b) The most important woman in Mexican history.
(c) A ribbon around a bombshell.
(d) The best painter of our century.

9. How does Lowe write that Frida feels about Nefertiti?
(a) She wants to learn mroe about heer.
(b) She wishes she were as famous.
(c) She admires her power.
(d) She identifies with her.

10. What does Lowe write happened in Kahlo's life just before beginning the Diary?
(a) Her house burned down.
(b) Diego had an affair with her aunt.
(c) Her father died.
(d) Her foot was amputated.

11. How does Fuentes compare the bloodshed of the Mexican Revolution and the "executions ordered by Hitler and Stalin"?
(a) As "more frequently over looked by historians, but no less important."
(b) As "on par."
(c) As "globally less important."
(d) As "small beer."

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

13. Who does Frida address an eight page letter to in the Diary?
(a) Jose Clemente Orozco.
(b) Her father, though he died years earlier.
(c) Diego Rivera.
(d) Her sister, Matilda.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What obsession does Frida reveal in a long list?

2. What does Fuentes write happened in September of 1925 that changed Frida's life?

3. Which of the following does Frida use in her Diary?

4. One of the first images creates in her diary is "connect-the-dots ink drawing." Which of the following figures can be found in the drawing?

5. How does Frida describe "desire"?

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