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

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

3. Why does Frida create a list of things she is thankful for?
(a) She is thankful for learning to speak in public.
(b) She is thankful for her upcoming exposition.
(c) She is thankful for her pregnancy.
(d) She is thankful for learning to walk after surgery.

4. Which of the following does Frida admire, and write about in her diary?
(a) Francisco Madero, a revolutionary.
(b) Juan Farill, her doctor.
(c) Carlos Riviera, Diego's brother.
(d) Franchesca, her neighbor.

5. What recipe does Frida include in her Diary?
(a) A recipe for paint.
(b) A recipe for salsa.
(c) A recipe for deer food.
(d) An Aztec recipe for verdolagas, also called purslane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best characterizes the sentiments that Frida expresses in her Diary toward her husband?

2. What film does Isabel Villasenor participate in?

3. What pair of drawings does Frida label "Don't come crying to me!" and "Yes, I come crying to you"?

4. In the image where Frida paints "an angel and putto," what does Lowe write that Frida creates instead of stars?

5. What landscape image does Frida create in a late entry that Lowe writes is "eerie" and "unlike any [painting] Kahlo had ever made"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What interest does Frida show in art technique and tradition?

2. How does Frida describe the United States and England?

3. What significance does the number 379 have to Frida?

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

5. In what image does Frida draw a pigeon?

6. What does Frida write about the painter Hieronymus Bosh?

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

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

9. Describe the two vases that Frida depicts crying.

10. Frida uses the signature Sadja. What does this mean?

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