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

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

3. What is the "golden section," which Frida writes of as the "seccion de oro"?
(a) An equation that is "thought to be inherently harmonic."
(b) A way of breeding monkeys.
(c) Part of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City.
(d) It is the way in which the golden rule, or "being as kind to others as you would like them to be to you," is described in Mexico.

4. 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.

5. In 1944, Lowe writes that Kahlo painted herself with someone else, merged into a single head. Who was this?
(a) Maria Kahlo.
(b) Diego Rivera.
(c) Emiliano Zapata.
(d) Leon Trotsky.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Frida write that she would like to serve as a "craftswoman"?

3. What is the last image in Frida's diary?

4. What song lyrics does Frida repeatedly cite in the Diary?

5. What does Lowe argue the final image in Frida's diary is about?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Frida describe life after her leg is amputated?

2. Frida creates a winged figure, and writes about Diego. What does she write about Diego in this entry?

3. What does Frida write about Stalin?

4. What doctor does Frida make reference to?

5. What is the Eyesaurus.

6. How does Frida describe her early life in her "Outline of my life"?

7. Describe the two vases that Frida depicts crying.

8. What image does Frida create with the word "sleep"?

9. What does Frida write about her leg?

10. How does Frida alter an erotic photo of a woman?

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