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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frida label her own work in the Diary?
(a) Feminine Surrealism.
(b) Revolutionary Realism.
(c) Mexican Realism.
(d) Retro Impressionism.

2. Which of the following are among Frida's interests mentioned in the Diary?
(a) Sewing lace.
(b) Arrranging flowers.
(c) Making candles.
(d) Baking cakes.

3. 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.

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

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

6. Which of the images in the Diary does Frida later use for a formal painting?
(a) "Center and One."
(b) "August Heaven and Earth Me and Diego."
(c) "Motion in Prance."
(d) "Footprints and Sun Prince."

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

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

9. Where does Frida sit in an image of her holding Diego Rivera as her child?
(a) On the lap of a woman who personifies Mexico.
(b) In the middle of a desert landscape.
(c) On an oversized leaf.
(d) On the lap of a woman who personifies the universe.

10. In whose memory does Frida create two pages in her diary?
(a) Isabel Villasenor.
(b) Francisco Madero.
(c) Maria Izquierdo.
(d) Diego Rivera.

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

12. What picture does Frida use to create a collage?
(a) An image of the president of Mexico.
(b) A photo of a man hunting.
(c) An erotic photo.
(d) Architectural blueprints.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In an image labeled "Dog," where does Frida place the dog?

2. What does Frida equate with being alive?

3. What does Frida write is "the only true reason to live for"?

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

5. What figure does Lowe believe is depicted in flames in Frida's image labeled "Footprints and sunprints"?

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