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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 does Lowe argue the final image in Frida's diary is about?
(a) Her wish for healing.
(b) Her love for her husband.
(c) Her desire to communicate with her father who has passed away.
(d) Her departure from this world.

2. What did Frida label an image of a pigeon sitting atop a partially human body?
(a) "100 Ways to Kill a Pigeon."
(b) "The pigeon headed woman."
(c) "This pigeon will fly."
(d) "The pigeon made mistakes..."

3. What does Lowe write to explain the piece The Two Fridas, painted in 1939?
(a) Frida wrote that one of these was the Frida Diego loved, the other was the Frida that Diego once loved.
(b) Frida claimed that one was the sick Frida, while the other was the healthy Frida.
(c) Frida claimed that one was the Frida that her parents had longed for, the other the Frida who was an artist.
(d) Frida wrote that one was how Diego would have her be, while the other was who she was.

4. What does Lowe write that it means when she paints her right foot?
(a) It is a comical referrence to Diego Rivera's delicate painting of women's feet.
(b) The foot was a Toltec symbol.
(c) It is a reflection on her childhood illness that affected this foot.
(d) This foot brought her pain, so she may have been focused on pain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What landscape image does Frida create in a late entry that Lowe writes is "eerie" and "unlike any [painting] Kahlo had ever made"?

2. In the image where Frida paints "an angel and putto," what does Lowe write that Frida creates instead of stars?

3. Who does Frida credit with the fact that she is "no longer alone"?

4. Which of the images in the Diary does Frida later use for a formal painting?

5. What do the words "MOON" and "SUN" refer to in the image that places a woman between the two?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Frida categorize her art?

2. Frida creates a winged figure, and writes about Diego. What does she write about Diego in this entry?

3. How does Frida remember Isabel Villasenor?

4. Why does Frida draw her right foot?

5. What childhood memory does Frida describe, and could be seen as the origins of The Two Fridas?

6. What does Frida write about the painter Hieronymus Bosh?

7. What does Frida write about her leg?

8. How does Frida alter an erotic photo of a woman?

9. Frida uses the signature Sadja. What does this mean?

10. What interest does Frida show in art technique and tradition?

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