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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animals does Frida paint playing with string?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Cats.
(c) Birds.
(d) Bulls.

2. What does Fuentes cite Virgina Woolf as writing on pain?
(a) It is the one thing that all humanity shares.
(b) It affects women more than men.
(c) It is deeply personal.
(d) It is undescribable.

3. In Frida's "Portrait of Neferunico," who does the portrait most resemble?
(a) Frida herself.
(b) Diego Rivera.
(c) Nefertiti.
(d) Jacqueline Lamba.

4. What does Fuentes write happened in September of 1925 that changed Frida's life?
(a) She miscarried.
(b) Her foot was amputated.
(c) She divorced for the first time.
(d) An accident.

5. What does Kahlo liken to ink?
(a) Oil.
(b) Blood.
(c) Wine.
(d) Salsa.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lowe write that the text Kahlo includes in the images in her Diary affect the viewers understanding of the image?

2. What does Fuentes claim have been the worst traumas for Mexico?

3. Which of the following subjects does Frida mention in a letter to her husband in the Diary?

4. What does Lowe write happened in Kahlo's life just before beginning the Diary?

5. What does Frida write on the page that she fills with faces in bubbles?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lowe claim that Frida included a bride in her painting The Bride Who Becomes Frightened When She Sees Life Open?

2. On what kind of body does Frida create a two-headed bull figure?

3. How does Lowe describe Frida's relationship with Surrealism?

4. What is in the image that Frida labels "The Phenomenon Unforseen"?

5. Describe Frida's appearance, and the importance of her appearance, to Carlos Fuentes.

6. Who does Kahlo create a double portrait of? What images surround the portrait?

7. What figures are included in Frida's "connect-the-dot" drawing?

8. How does Frida begin her diary?

9. Why does Frida claim she was born in 1910?

10. What characterized Frida's "poetry"?

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