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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. Where does Frida describe meeting an imaginary friend?

2. Who is in the image labeled "What a dish!"?

3. What does Lowe write that Citlali means?

4. Why does Frida create a list of things she is thankful for?

5. What violent event does Frida recall from her childhood in an entry that describes her early life?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Frida write about her leg?

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

4. How does Frida describe Communism and its leaders?

5. How does Frida remember Isabel Villasenor?

6. What does Frida pair with Communist symbols?

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

8. In what image does Frida draw a pigeon?

9. What doctor does Frida make reference to?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Frida paints her dog, Mr. Xolotl, deer, and other animals in the Diary. What can be said of her depictions of animals? What can be said of her relationship with animals in general? How does this relationship compare with her relationship with other people?

Essay Topic 2

For Carlos Fuentes, Frida has three principal external sources -- her father, Guillermo Kahlo, and his photographic work, Mexican retablos, and the work of Jose Guadalupe Posadas. While these are important sources, he writes "she is capable of coming back to her original sources and transforming them." Which of these influences do you believe are the most important in her work? What influences can you find in the pages that she created in her own diary?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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