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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Mr. Xolotl?
(a) A dog.
(b) A Mexican ambasador to the U.K.
(c) Frida's name for a kind of tree.
(d) A poet from Coyoacan.

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

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

5. What do the words "MOON" and "SUN" refer to in the image that places a woman between the two?
(a) Frida's belief that her place was in the center of the cosmos.
(b) A 1952 bestselling book in Mexico.
(c) The pyramids at Teotihuacan.
(d) The so-called "Land of the midnight sun."

6. What does Lowe write is associated in pre-Columbian mythology with the right foot?
(a) A full moon.
(b) Deer.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Fire.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What is the last image in Frida's diary?
(a) An apple.
(b) Diego.
(c) A candle.
(d) A winged creature.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Frida admire, and write about in her diary?

2. What figures are included in the image Frida labels "DEATH IN A RIOT"?

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

4. After writing, "I am no longer alone," who does Frida write that she loves?

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

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