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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What does Frida equate with being alive?
(a) Making her husband's favorite soup.
(b) Having children.
(c) Being part of the Revolution.
(d) Painting with oil paints.

4. What song lyrics does Frida repeatedly cite in the Diary?
(a) "Sing and don't cry."
(b) "Life is about love, but dancing is fine."
(c) "Tree of hope stand firm."
(d) "No man is an island."

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

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

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

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

9. Which of the following did Frida write over an image of a foot?
(a) "Walker, dancer... Revolutionary..."
(b) "Artist, wife... I will dance."
(c) "Ancient symbol of direction."
(d) "Long live the dance. Long live health!"

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

11. What does Frida write next to the image of a disembodied hand (which Lowe writes is likely Rivera's) caressing an unspecified object?
(a) She praises his tenderness with Mexican sculpture.
(b) She praises his interest in her pets.
(c) She praises his love of food.
(d) She praises his tenderness with women.

12. What childhood memory does Frida write about in 1950?
(a) Taking ballet classes.
(b) Playing with a neighbor boy.
(c) Chewing on a doll's foot.
(d) Playing with an imaginary friend.

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

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

15. What kind of animal body does Lowe write that Frida painted with her own face (outside of her diary)?
(a) A deer.
(b) A dog.
(c) A cat.
(d) A bear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "golden section," which Frida writes of as the "seccion de oro"?

2. Who is Olinka?

3. Which of the following is the central image in a page labeled "I love Diego"?

4. What does Lowe write that it means when she paints her right foot?

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

(see the answer keys)

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