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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21, Portraits of a Marriage and Chapter 22, Naturaleza Viva: Alive Still Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Kahlo's father favor her above her sisters?
(a) Because he saw much of himself in the girl.
(b) Because she was the most outgoing.
(c) Because she was the most intelligent.
(d) Because she was the prettiest.

2. Now that Kahlo's career had begun to take off, where was her work finally being recognized?
(a) Asia.
(b) In her own country.
(c) America.
(d) Europe.

3. Whose head did Rivera want to paint beside the head of Abraham Lincoln in his mural?
(a) Lenin.
(b) Washington.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Stalin.

4. In what year did Kahlo sail to Paris?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1939.

5. What is the color of the house where the story of Frida Kahlo's life begins?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Kahlo's clique that she hung out with at the National Preparatory School?

2. What did the doctors prescribe for Kahlo after she recovered from her illness?

3. What movement began to lose popularity in the 1940's, and Kahlo resisted being associated with a dying trend?

4. What did Kahlo decorate her hospital room with in Chapter 22?

5. Who did Kahlo have an affair with, that went so far as the two of them got an apartment together?

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