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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 recipe does Frida include in her Diary?

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

3. Why does Lowe believe Frida can paint her own death?

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

5. What does Frida paint as burning?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the two vases that Frida depicts crying.

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

3. What does Frida write about Stalin?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Frida write about her leg?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Kahlo's early interest in physiology and biology affect her art? What does Lowe write is her most common biological and botanical metaphor? How do you see this used throughout the Diary?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Frida combines her face with Diego's face. She adds wings to the human body. In what other ways does Frida demonstrate an interest in hybrid forms?

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