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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Frida sit in an image of her holding Diego Rivera as her child?

2. Who does Frida claim was her best example of tenderness as a youth?

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

4. What do the words "MOON" and "SUN" refer to in the image that places a woman between the two?

5. What does Lowe write makes a winged creature "speak to Kahlo's wholly subjective image of herself"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What doctor does Frida make reference to?

3. In what image does Frida draw a pigeon?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What image does Lowe write that Frida paints from "a worm's-eye view"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

According to the Introductions by Fuentes and Lowe, Frida and Diego's relationship was complex. They both had affairs. They divorced. They remarried. Is there any evidence in Frida's own writing that the relationship was less than ideal? What evidence does she offer about her married life? How do you believe that this shaped her life and her art?

Essay Topic 2

Fuentes notes the trauma that losing territory to the U.S. caused Mexico. He also writes of censorship imposed on Mexican artists (Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Jose Clemente Orozco) working in the U.S. What is the overall impression of the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico created in Fuente's introduction?

Essay Topic 3

Fuentes notes that Andre Breton stipulated a great number of "rules" that Surrealists needed to follow, but argues that the sense of magic and surprise that he was after exists naturally in Mexico and Latin America. Sarah M. Lowe writes that Frida did not feel strongly aligned with this movement. Would you categorize Frida's work as Surrealist? What evidence can you find in the Diary to explain why or why not?

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