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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which two political systems does Lowe note that Frida pairs?
(a) Aztec and the ruling political party in Colombia.
(b) Mayan and Aztec.
(c) Communist and Argentine.
(d) Aztec and Communist.

5. What does Frida describe as "the harmony of form and color"?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Human biological functions.
(c) Love.
(d) Sleep.

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

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

8. Which of the following best characterizes the sentiments that Frida expresses in her Diary toward her husband?
(a) Love.
(b) Anger.
(c) Concern.
(d) Sadness.

9. What does Frida write over and over, in bubbles surrounding an angel?
(a) Love.
(b) Harmony.
(c) Pain.
(d) Sleep.

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

11. 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 birds.
(c) Drawings of vases.
(d) Drawings of a pot and pan.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frida write "is the most ridiculous thing 'man' has"?

2. What landscape image does Frida create in a late entry that Lowe writes is "eerie" and "unlike any [painting] Kahlo had ever made"?

3. Which of the following does Frida mention multiple times in the Diary?

4. What does Frida write next to the image of a disembodied hand (which Lowe writes is likely Rivera's) caressing an unspecified object?

5. Who is in the image labeled "What a dish!"?

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