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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. What does Frida describe as "the harmony of form and color"?

2. Which of the following are among Frida's interests mentioned in the Diary?

3. Which of the following best describes Kahlo's relationship with artist Hieronymus Bosh?

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

5. What childhood memory does Frida write about in 1950?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Frida categorize her art?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the two vases that Frida depicts crying.

8. How does Frida describe Communism and its leaders?

9. How does Frida remember Isabel Villasenor?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lowe compares the reception of Frida's self-portraits (sometimes thought "excessively personal and self-referential") to those of Rembrant and VanGogh (who, she claims, express sentiments "considered applicable to all of 'mankind'"). Explain whether or not you believe that Frida's artistic expression is something that could be universally understood.

Essay Topic 2

Sarah M. Lowe writes that the Diary documents Frida's physical decline. Do you agree or disagree? What evidence can you find in the Diary itself? What other trends can we see in the Diary entries over time?

Essay Topic 3

Fuentes writes that Frida conceives of "beauty as truth and self-knowledge. as becoming -- devenir -- [which] requires unblinking courage and is Kahlo's great legacy to the marginal, the invisible men and women of an increasingly faceless, anonymous planet..." Do you agree or disagree with this statement? How do you believe that Frida understands beauty? What evidence can you find for this in Sarah M. Lowe's introduction? What can you find in Frida's own writing?

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