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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. What did Kahlo do a month after her divorce became final and was the same thing she did when learning of her husband's affair with her sister?
(a) She dyed her hair red.
(b) She shaved her head.
(c) She dyed her hair blond.
(d) She cut her hair short.

2. What did Kahlo give Trotsky after ending their affair in Chapter 14?
(a) Some money.
(b) A painting.
(c) A ring.
(d) A letter.

3. How did the students that Kahlo taught feel about her?
(a) They were scared of her.
(b) They hated her.
(c) They adored her.
(d) They mocked her.

4. Why did Kahlo request that her students come to see her at her home instead of at the school?
(a) She wanted the students to use her tools.
(b) The long commute was taxing her health.
(c) She was no longer welcome at the school.
(d) She disliked the impersonal setting of the school.

5. What did Kahlo and Rivera say the success of their marriage depended on besides humor, social conscience, intelligence?
(a) Bohemian ways and independence.
(b) Strong affinity for Mexicanism and bohemian ways.
(c) Independence and affairs.
(d) Strong affinity for Mexicanism and independence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did many Mexicans and Kahlo's friends see her accident as?

2. As Kahlo's health declined, her devotion to Communism intensified; what did she add to her portraits?

3. Who had Rivera accepted commissions from that he was now having complaints about in Chapter 9?

4. What did Kahlo's painting in Chapter 5 seem to represent?

5. How did Kahlo change after Rivera's affair became public?

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