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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is in the image labeled "What a dish!"?
(a) Emiliano Zapata, a revolutionary.
(b) An unknown young woman.
(c) Diego Rivera.
(d) Frida.

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

4. What did Frida label an image of a pigeon sitting atop a partially human body?
(a) "The pigeon made mistakes..."
(b) "100 Ways to Kill a Pigeon."
(c) "This pigeon will fly."
(d) "The pigeon headed woman."

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

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

7. What does Frida describe will happen to her leg in her August 1953 entry?
(a) It will be amputated.
(b) It will be measured so that a special brace can be made.
(c) She will paint it in a formal painting.
(d) It will be put in a cast.

8. To what does Lowe attribute Frida's "loose" handwriting in 1947?
(a) Anger.
(b) Fatigue.
(c) Pain killers.
(d) Depression.

9. Which of the following best describes Kahlo's relationship with artist Hieronymus Bosh?
(a) It is a relationship of love.
(b) It is a mystical relationship that disturbed Kahlo.
(c) It is a relationship of disrespect.
(d) It is a relationship of admiration.

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

11. What does Frida signal in an image in which arrows point at her naked body?
(a) Points that she writes "Diego once loved."
(b) Sites of surgeries.
(c) Painful areas.
(d) Places where she can combine her body with an animal body.

12. In one of her entries, Frida imagines herself as a Superwoman. Lowe writes that a few things denote her as a Superwoman. Which of the following does Lowe include as characteristic of Superwoman?
(a) A cape.
(b) Her stance on the top of a tall building.
(c) Large breasts.
(d) Shiny shoes.

13. Where does Frida describe meeting an imaginary friend?
(a) In the forest.
(b) At a store.
(c) At the National Palace.
(d) Near her mother's beauty salon.

14. 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.

15. Which of the following is the central image in a page labeled "I love Diego"?
(a) Her "plaster corset."
(b) A foggy window.
(c) An ink spill.
(d) A donkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Frida paints two images of death. The first is labeled "Deaths in a Riot." What is the mood of this image?

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

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

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

5. In the image labeled "SUN," and "MOON," there is a woman labeled "ME?" Which of the following describe this woman?

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