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

2. What was the name of Kahlo's painting in Chapter 5 that depicted her feelings of paralysis and despair?
(a) The Broken Column.
(b) My Birth.
(c) The Shattered Soul.
(d) Self Portrait.

3. How old was Rivera when he began work at the National Preparatory School?
(a) Fifty-six.
(b) Twenty-six.
(c) Forty-six.
(d) Thirty-six.

4. What did an article in the New York World-Telegram call Rivera's unfinished mural?
(a) Capitalist.
(b) Terrioist.
(c) Communist.
(d) Breathtaking.

5. What was the name of the painting that Kahlo created that was in reference to a man who murdered his lover?
(a) My Dress Hangs There.
(b) Where I Left My Heart.
(c) My Tears.
(d) A Few Small Nips.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Rivera have an affair with that left Kahlo completely distraught in Chapter 12?

2. What type of surgeon was the doctor that Kahlo met in America, who helped her the rest of her life?

3. What did Kahlo destroy in order to highlight her loneliness and demonstrate her defiant feelings to be left alone?

4. What was the name of the painting that Kahlo created to depict the pain she was suffering through?

5. Kahlo's mother passed away in Chapter 10 after having what removed?

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