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

2. Where does Frida describe meeting an imaginary friend?
(a) At a store.
(b) In the forest.
(c) At the National Palace.
(d) Near her mother's beauty salon.

3. What kind of animal body does Lowe write that Frida painted with her own face (outside of her diary)?
(a) A cat.
(b) A deer.
(c) A dog.
(d) A bear.

4. Frida paints two images of death. The first is labeled "Deaths in a Riot." What is the mood of this image?
(a) Humorous.
(b) Frightening.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Sad.

5. What does Frida draw hanging from a clothesline?
(a) Monkeys.
(b) Women in long dresses.
(c) Bright lights.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lowe write makes a winged creature "speak to Kahlo's wholly subjective image of herself"?

2. Why does Lowe believe Frida can paint her own death?

3. What does Frida write "is the most ridiculous thing 'man' has"?

4. What is the name of the monstrous creature that Frida paints in green, wrapped with red ribbons?

5. What does Lowe write to explain the piece The Two Fridas, painted in 1939?

Short Essay Questions

1. What doctor does Frida make reference to?

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

3. What image does Frida create with the word "sleep"?

4. Which painting does Frida plan in a preliminary sketch in her diary?

5. What anniversary does Frida mark with a diary entry?

6. How does Frida depict skeletons?

7. What do arrows denote in Frida's only nude, full-length self-portrait?

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

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

10. Describe the two vases that Frida depicts crying.

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