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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. Who is Isabel Villasenor?

2. Who does Frida write "lulls her to sleep"?

3. What is the name of the monstrous creature that Frida paints in green, wrapped with red ribbons?

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

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 does Frida write about her leg?

2. In what image does Frida draw a pigeon?

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

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

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

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

7. What doctor does Frida make reference to?

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

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

10. How does Frida depict skeletons?

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 writes that Frida's physical pain mirrors the traumas of the Mexican nation. Lowe writes that despite the pain that is evident in her diary, her humor and "alegria" show through. What role do you think Frida's pain plays in her Diary? What is the role of pain in her context? Do you think that her pain has anything to do with her country? Her time? What role do you think it plays in her work as a whole? How do you think it has affected acceptance for, or interest in, her work?

Essay Topic 3

Toward the end of Kahlo's diary, Lowe notes "Kahlo pairs a powerful modern political system -- Communism -- with an ancient, longer-lived regime -- the Aztec empire." In what other ways does she use pre-Columbian words and imagery? What overall effect does this have on her work? How does it effect her identity?

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