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The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-portrait Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lowe claim was the guiding principal behind Surrealism?
(a) Sadism.
(b) Suprise.
(c) Mysticism.
(d) Rebellion.

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

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

4. Where does Lowe write that Frida's work was first taken seriously (where she "made a decisive shift from amateur to professional painter")?
(a) In the United States.
(b) In Mexico City, where Ines Amor organized an important exhibit.
(c) On a trip to Puerto Rico.
(d) In Germany.

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

6. How does Lowe describe Kahlo as a reader?
(a) She was an "average reader," but enjoyed learning from other sources as well.
(b) She was more interested in learning from experts than reading.
(c) She did not read, but collected and flipped through inumerable art books.
(d) She was a "voracious" reader.

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

8. Which of the following qualities does Lowe claim Frida shares with Surrealism?
(a) A love of the grotesque.
(b) An interest in the subconscious.
(c) A fascination with pain.
(d) An interest in romance.

9. Which of the following best describes the connection between entries in Frida's diary.
(a) They deal with the current trauma in her life.
(b) They show her maturing, over the course of about 15 years.
(c) There is little continuity.
(d) They are themed.

10. 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 feeling of pain and dispair.
(d) A sense of happiness and humor.

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

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 stages of a woman's life.
(b) The strength of romantic life.
(c) The power struggle in a family.
(d) The violence of birth and death.

13. 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?
(a) A dog.
(b) A rainbow.
(c) The solar system.
(d) The Brooklyn Bridge.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Olmedo that Kahlo refers to in the first few pages of her poem?

2. How did Kahlo paint Dorothy Hale?

3. What does Fuentes cite Virgina Woolf as writing on pain?

4. What are the carpas that Fuentes describes?

5. As Frida's health declined, what does Lowe claim she painted more and more of?

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