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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 do the words "MOON" and "SUN" refer to in the image that places a woman between the two?

2. Who does Frida write "lulls her to sleep"?

3. What does Lowe write that Frida's "primative, ancient animal" creation recalls?

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

5. What does Frida write is "the only true reason to live for"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What image does Lowe write that Frida paints from "a worm's-eye view"?

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

3. How does Frida place herself in a pre-Columbian setting?

4. How does Frida categorize her art?

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

6. Describe the two vases that Frida depicts crying.

7. Why does Frida draw her right foot?

8. What is the Eyesaurus.

9. How does Frida depict skeletons?

10. In what image does Frida draw a pigeon?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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