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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 movement began to lose popularity in the 1940's, and Kahlo resisted being associated with a dying trend?
(a) Resistance.
(b) Anarchist.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Impressionism.

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

3. Who did Kahlo and Rivera turn away and break their political views from in Chapter 15?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Trotsky.

4. What did Kahlo refuse to do with her paintings, despite her need to sell paintings to live?
(a) Do more self-portraits for people.
(b) Make her work more salable in order to gain profits.
(c) Sell at discount prices.
(d) Mass produce her work.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 21, what did Kahlo continue to paint the changing landscape of?

2. What did Kahlo write in her diary in Chapter 24?

3. What was the name of the painting that Kahlo created that indicated she had had yet another miscarriage?

4. Why was the loss of a body part such a huge blow to Kahlo?

5. What type of relationships did Kahlo begin to explore that Rivera looked upon favorably?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Frida's painting career begin to take off in Chapter 19?

4. What did Frida's painting, My Nurse and I, represent?

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

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

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

8. How did Frida become as her illness worsened?

9. Why did Frida have her leg amputated, and how did it affect her?

10. What did the success of Rivera and Frida's marriage depend upon?

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