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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 in the image labeled "What a dish!"?

2. Which of the following is the central image in a page labeled "I love Diego"?

3. Who is Miss Capulina?

4. What does Kahlo write about the artist Bosch?

5. What does Frida equate with being alive?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Frida alter an erotic photo of a woman?

3. What doctor does Frida make reference to?

4. Describe the two vases that Frida depicts crying.

5. In what image does Frida draw a pigeon?

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

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

8. What is the Eyesaurus.

9. What does Frida write about Stalin?

10. How does Frida categorize her art?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Frida paints death, writes of a friend's death, and of her own future death. Lowe notes that in one entry, she even paints herself "in the same position [as a skeleton] but in reverse, as the figure on the previous page. The two even share a shattered arm." What role does death in general play in the Diary? What does the Diary help us to understand about Frida's understanding of death?

Essay Topic 2

Fuentes writes that Frida was a member of the Communist party from an early age, but that her "politics, such as they were, could not be separated from the personality and the actions of Diego Rivera." Lowe writes that she understood Communism in a religious way. Based on both the text and images in her Diary, how do you think that Frida understood Communism?

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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