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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) A San Francisco street.
(c) An angel flying over a row of skyscrapers.
(d) A Mexican plaza with a church.

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

3. In the image labeled "SUN," and "MOON," there is a woman labeled "ME?" Which of the following describe this woman?
(a) She is drowning.
(b) She is on fire.
(c) She has one foot.
(d) She has one arm.

4. Who does Frida write "lulls her to sleep"?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Pain medication.
(c) Diego Rivera.
(d) Marx and Engles.

5. What does Frida draw hanging from a clothesline?
(a) Women in long dresses.
(b) Bright lights.
(c) Men.
(d) Monkeys.

6. What violent event does Frida recall from her childhood in an entry that describes her early life?
(a) Her sister falling from a balcony and bleeding all over the interior patio.
(b) Violent fighting in the central plaza of Mexico City.
(c) Witnessing a death in the offices of the local Communist party (which she joined at 13).
(d) Her mother attending wounded Zapatistas.

7. Who does Frida write that she would like to serve as a "craftswoman"?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The Communist party.
(c) Her local market.
(d) The president of her country.

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

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

10. What number repeats in Frida's diary?
(a) 888.
(b) 379.
(c) 911.
(d) 424.

11. What does Lowe write makes a winged creature "speak to Kahlo's wholly subjective image of herself"?
(a) A trail of blood.
(b) An artificial leg.
(c) A long Oaxacan skirt.
(d) A cast.

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

13. Why does Lowe believe Frida can paint her own death?
(a) She plans her own death.
(b) She has already said goodbye to her loved ones.
(c) She faced it frequently.
(d) She hopes it is pleasant.

14. Who is Miss Capulina?
(a) A dog.
(b) A deer.
(c) A poet.
(d) An artist.

15. What does Lowe write that Frida suffered from in her foot?
(a) Athlete's foot.
(b) Spurs.
(c) Hammer toe.
(d) Trophic ulcers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Frida write over and over, in bubbles surrounding an angel?

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

4. Where does Frida describe meeting an imaginary friend?

5. What is the first thing Frida mentions as having passed between 1950 and 1951?

(see the answer keys)

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