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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frida label her own work in the Diary?
(a) Revolutionary Realism.
(b) Retro Impressionism.
(c) Mexican Realism.
(d) Feminine Surrealism.

2. What violent event does Frida recall from her childhood in an entry that describes her early life?
(a) Her mother attending wounded Zapatistas.
(b) Witnessing a death in the offices of the local Communist party (which she joined at 13).
(c) Violent fighting in the central plaza of Mexico City.
(d) Her sister falling from a balcony and bleeding all over the interior patio.

3. Which two political systems does Lowe note that Frida pairs?
(a) Aztec and Communist.
(b) Communist and Argentine.
(c) Mayan and Aztec.
(d) Aztec and the ruling political party in Colombia.

4. What does Frida write next to the image of a disembodied hand (which Lowe writes is likely Rivera's) caressing an unspecified object?
(a) She praises his love of food.
(b) She praises his tenderness with women.
(c) She praises his tenderness with Mexican sculpture.
(d) She praises his interest in her pets.

5. What childhood memory does Frida write about in 1950?
(a) Chewing on a doll's foot.
(b) Playing with an imaginary friend.
(c) Taking ballet classes.
(d) Playing with a neighbor boy.

6. What does Lowe write that a dot within a circle symbolized to the Aztecs?
(a) Eggs, fertility, and birth.
(b) Death.
(c) Illness.
(d) A single unit.

7. What figure does Lowe believe is depicted in flames in Frida's image labeled "Footprints and sunprints"?
(a) A barbecue.
(b) A burning building.
(c) A burnt cast.
(d) A phoenix.

8. Which of the following best characterizes the sentiments that Frida expresses in her Diary toward her husband?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Love.
(c) Anger.
(d) Concern.

9. What does Lowe write that Frida suffered from in her foot?
(a) Hammer toe.
(b) Trophic ulcers.
(c) Spurs.
(d) Athlete's foot.

10. What recipe does Frida include in her Diary?
(a) A recipe for deer food.
(b) A recipe for salsa.
(c) An Aztec recipe for verdolagas, also called purslane.
(d) A recipe for paint.

11. Which of the following does Frida include in her final written entry in the Diary?
(a) "I hope the leaving is joyful -- and I hope never to return."
(b) "Death will be the greatest miracle of my life. An end to the suffering."
(c) "I sense that the end is near -- it is magic."
(d) "Art has been the greatest thing of my life."

12. What is the "golden section," which Frida writes of as the "seccion de oro"?
(a) Part of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City.
(b) An equation that is "thought to be inherently harmonic."
(c) A way of breeding monkeys.
(d) It is the way in which the golden rule, or "being as kind to others as you would like them to be to you," is described in Mexico.

13. What does Frida write over and over, in bubbles surrounding an angel?
(a) Love.
(b) Harmony.
(c) Pain.
(d) Sleep.

14. Who does Frida dedicate two pages to?
(a) Diego Rivera.
(b) Leon Trotsky.
(c) Andre Breton.
(d) Emiliano Zapata.

15. Why does Lowe believe Frida can paint her own death?
(a) She has already said goodbye to her loved ones.
(b) She faced it frequently.
(c) She hopes it is pleasant.
(d) She plans her own death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Frida write "lulls her to sleep"?

2. What song lyrics does Frida repeatedly cite in the Diary?

3. What does Lowe write that it means when she paints her right foot?

4. What does Frida equate with being alive?

5. Which of the following is a recurring figure in the Diary?

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