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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of teaching style did Kahlo use?
(a) Unstructured.
(b) Authoritative.
(c) Passive.
(d) Regimented.

2. What did Kahlo write in her diary in Chapter 24?
(a) That she wanted to die.
(b) That she was scared of dying.
(c) That she knew she was dying.
(d) That she wished she would have died years ago.

3. What physical aspect about Rivera did Kahlo laugh at?
(a) His bread.
(b) The way he dresses.
(c) His hair.
(d) His size.

4. At what school was Kahlo was invited to teach?
(a) La Evangelina.
(b) La Esmeralda.
(c) La Esmerada.
(d) La Emelia.

5. How were Rivera and Kahlo seen by friends in their marriage?
(a) As merely roommates.
(b) As sacred monsters.
(c) As best friends.
(d) As bitter enemies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Rivera act when he did not get what he wanted?

2. What did Kahlo give Trotsky after ending their affair in Chapter 14?

3. What happened to Kahlo since she was not immediately happy with the city of Paris?

4. Why type of movement did not catch on in Mexico despite the high hopes of Europeans?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was Frida invited to teach and what was her teaching style?

2. Which students continued to work with Frida even after she started teaching from home?

3. Why didn''t Surrealism catch on in Mexico?

4. How did Rivera and Frida fall away from the Trotskites?

5. What did Frida write in her diary just days before her death?

6. Despite Frida's declining heath, how did she attend an art exhibit honoring her in 1953?

7. What did Frida paint for the patron Clare Boothe Luce, who commissioned a portrait for the New York Opening of Frida's art exhibit?

8. How was Frida's approach to Surrealism different than European Surrealists?

9. What did Frida's painting, The Little Deer represent?

10. In 1939, Frida sailed to Paris; how did she first feel about the city?

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