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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frida paint as burning?
(a) A skyscraper.
(b) A casket.
(c) A school.
(d) A howling dog.

2. Who does Frida write that she is working on a painting for?
(a) A portrait of Diego Rivera, as a birthday present.
(b) Maria, her sister.
(c) Juan Farill, her doctor.
(d) Matilde, her mother who has already died.

3. Which of the following is a recurring figure in the Diary?
(a) Fire.
(b) Animal feet.
(c) Water.
(d) Wings.

4. After writing, "I am no longer alone," who does Frida write that she loves?
(a) Mao.
(b) Her father.
(c) Tina Modoti.
(d) Diego Rivera.

5. What does Frida write "is the most ridiculous thing 'man' has"?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Art.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Illness.

6. Which of the following does Frida admire, and write about in her diary?
(a) Francisco Madero, a revolutionary.
(b) Carlos Riviera, Diego's brother.
(c) Juan Farill, her doctor.
(d) Franchesca, her neighbor.

7. What story does Lowe liken Frida's childhood memory to?
(a) Lewis Caroll's Alice.
(b) A small story (in a single panel) of Diego Rivera's History of Mexico mural.
(c) An Aztec birth myth.
(d) A German tale her father may have shared with her.

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

9. What does Frida write is the most precious thing?
(a) Leisure.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Love.
(d) Light.

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

11. 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 San Francisco street.
(b) A horse and building.
(c) A Mexican plaza with a church.
(d) An angel flying over a row of skyscrapers.

12. Who is Mr. Xolotl?
(a) Frida's name for a kind of tree.
(b) A dog.
(c) A Mexican ambasador to the U.K.
(d) A poet from Coyoacan.

13. What signature does Frida use several times in the Diary?
(a) Mrs. K. de Rivera.
(b) Cuatlicue.
(c) The Little Frida.
(d) Sadja.

14. Who is Olinka?
(a) Isabel Villasenor's daughter
(b) Francisco Madero's wife
(c) Maria Izquierdo's daughter
(d) Frida's cousin

15. Who is Isabel Villasenor?
(a) An art critic.
(b) A painter.
(c) A politician.
(d) A poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Frida claim was her best example of tenderness as a youth?

2. Which of the following best describes Kahlo's relationship with artist Hieronymus Bosh?

3. What pair of drawings does Frida label "Don't come crying to me!" and "Yes, I come crying to you"?

4. What picture does Frida use to create a collage?

5. What does Lowe write to explain the piece The Two Fridas, painted in 1939?

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