View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What film does Isabel Villasenor participate in?
(a) La Casa Azul
(b) Que Viva Mexico!
(c) Surrealistas
(d) Pinto Mi Raya!

2. What landscape image does Frida create in a late entry that Lowe writes is "eerie" and "unlike any [painting] Kahlo had ever made"?
(a) A horse and building.
(b) An angel flying over a row of skyscrapers.
(c) A Mexican plaza with a church.
(d) A San Francisco street.

3. What does Frida label her own work in the Diary?
(a) Feminine Surrealism.
(b) Retro Impressionism.
(c) Revolutionary Realism.
(d) Mexican Realism.

4. Where does Frida write that she and her sister would watch revolutionary soldiers?
(a) In the Zocalo, the main plaza, in Mexico City.
(b) On trips to Cuernavaca, where the Zapatistas were strong.
(c) In the Coyoacan market.
(d) In San Angel.

5. Frida creates two images of death. One includes roots that above ground turn to flames. Which of the following best describes the mood of the image?
(a) Fun.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Humorous.
(d) Frightening.

6. As the Diary progresses, what does Lowe write that Frida gives an increasing amount of attention to?
(a) Her family history.
(b) Diego Rivera.
(c) Her childhood.
(d) Communism.

7. What does Lowe write is associated in pre-Columbian mythology with the right foot?
(a) A full moon.
(b) Fire.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Deer.

8. What does Lowe write that a dot within a circle symbolized to the Aztecs?
(a) Eggs, fertility, and birth.
(b) Illness.
(c) Death.
(d) A single unit.

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

10. What recipe does Frida include in her Diary?
(a) A recipe for paint.
(b) A recipe for salsa.
(c) An Aztec recipe for verdolagas, also called purslane.
(d) A recipe for deer food.

11. What is the first thing Frida mentions as having passed between 1950 and 1951?
(a) Her father dies.
(b) She has 7 surgeries.
(c) The presidential elections.
(d) Diego Rivera opens his museum.

12. What pair of drawings does Frida label "Don't come crying to me!" and "Yes, I come crying to you"?
(a) Drawings of Diego Rivera and a model working with him.
(b) Drawings of vases.
(c) Drawings of a pot and pan.
(d) Drawings of birds.

13. Who does Frida dedicate two pages to?
(a) Andre Breton.
(b) Emiliano Zapata.
(c) Diego Rivera.
(d) Leon Trotsky.

14. What does Lowe write that Frida's "primative, ancient animal" creation recalls?
(a) Cuaticue, an Aztec godess that gave birth to the moon.
(b) Tlaloc, the god of rain.
(c) Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent of Aztec legend.
(d) A fertility godess.

15. What is the last image in Frida's diary?
(a) A winged creature.
(b) An apple.
(c) Diego.
(d) A candle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What violent event does Frida recall from her childhood in an entry that describes her early life?

2. Which of the following does Frida include in her final written entry in the Diary?

3. Who did Frida give a painting to that she dated November 7, 1946?

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

5. What childhood memory does Frida write about in 1950?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 588 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample