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

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

4. Who does Frida refer to with the signature "Yrenaica"?
(a) Irene, a former assistant and lover to Diego Rivera.
(b) Yvette, her doctor's assistant.
(c) Yvette, a teacher from her childhood.
(d) Irene, assistant to the President of Mexico.

5. What does Frida write is "the only true reason to live for"?
(a) To paint.
(b) To enjoy secret love.
(c) The revolution.
(d) Learning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lowe write that it means when she paints her right foot?

2. What violent event does Frida recall from her childhood in an entry that describes her early life?

3. What did Frida claim she painted?

4. Who is Isabel Villasenor?

5. What does Lowe write that a dot within a circle symbolized to the Aztecs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What doctor does Frida make reference to?

2. What is the Eyesaurus.

3. How does Frida place herself in a pre-Columbian setting?

4. In what image does Frida draw a pigeon?

5. What does Frida write about her leg?

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

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

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

9. What anniversary does Frida mark with a diary entry?

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

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