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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 story does Lowe liken Frida's childhood memory to?
(a) A German tale her father may have shared with her.
(b) An Aztec birth myth.
(c) Lewis Caroll's Alice.
(d) A small story (in a single panel) of Diego Rivera's History of Mexico mural.

2. What does Lowe write that it means when she paints her right foot?
(a) This foot brought her pain, so she may have been focused on pain.
(b) It is a comical referrence to Diego Rivera's delicate painting of women's feet.
(c) The foot was a Toltec symbol.
(d) It is a reflection on her childhood illness that affected this foot.

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

4. What did Frida claim she painted?
(a) Her "deepest dreams."
(b) Her "reality."
(c) Her "hope for the future."
(d) Her "love for life."

5. What does Frida describe as "the harmony of form and color"?
(a) Human biological functions.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Love.
(d) Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing Frida mentions as having passed between 1950 and 1951?

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

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

4. What recipe does Frida include in her Diary?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Which painting does Frida plan in a preliminary sketch in her diary?

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

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

4. What childhood memory does Frida describe, and could be seen as the origins of The Two Fridas?

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

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

7. Why does Frida draw her right foot?

8. What do arrows denote in Frida's only nude, full-length self-portrait?

9. How does Frida describe Communism and its leaders?

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

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