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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. In 1944, Lowe writes that Kahlo painted herself with someone else, merged into a single head. Who was this?

2. What story does Lowe liken Frida's childhood memory to?

3. Where does Frida write that she and her sister would watch revolutionary soldiers?

4. As the Diary progresses, what does Lowe write that Frida gives an increasing amount of attention to?

5. In whose memory does Frida create two pages in her diary?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the Eyesaurus.

4. In what image does Frida draw a pigeon?

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

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

7. How does Frida describe Communism and its leaders?

8. What doctor does Frida make reference to?

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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