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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 picture does Frida use to create a collage?

2. What does Lowe write that Frida suffered from in her foot?

3. Which of the images in the Diary does Frida later use for a formal painting?

4. Who does Frida dedicate two pages to?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Frida depict skeletons?

3. What does Frida write about Stalin?

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

5. Why does Frida draw her right foot?

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

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

8. How does Frida describe Communism and its leaders?

9. Which painting does Frida plan in a preliminary sketch in her diary?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Frida creates a two page entry in memory of her poet friend Isabel "Chabela" Villasenor, who died shortly before she created them. She also created her own kind of free-association poems. How would you describe Frida's use of poetry? Is there a relationship between her poems and her art?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

After Frida's death, her fame grew immensely. Can you identify any of the reasons for her popularity in the Diary itself?

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