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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What childhood memory does Frida write about in 1950?

2. What does Frida label her own work in the Diary?

3. Which of the following is the central image in a page labeled "I love Diego"?

4. What does Lowe write is associated in pre-Columbian mythology with the right foot?

5. What violent event does Frida recall from her childhood in an entry that describes her early life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frida pair with Communist symbols?

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

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

4. How does Frida describe life after her leg is amputated?

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

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

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

8. What is the Eyesaurus.

9. What significance does the number 379 have to Frida?

10. How does Frida place herself in a pre-Columbian setting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Frida's work reflect her cultural heritage? In what way is this also reflected, or not reflected, in her personal life?

Essay Topic 2

Fuentes writes that Frida was a member of the Communist party from an early age, but that her "politics, such as they were, could not be separated from the personality and the actions of Diego Rivera." Lowe writes that she understood Communism in a religious way. Based on both the text and images in her Diary, how do you think that Frida understood Communism?

Essay Topic 3

For Carlos Fuentes, Frida has three principal external sources -- her father, Guillermo Kahlo, and his photographic work, Mexican retablos, and the work of Jose Guadalupe Posadas. While these are important sources, he writes "she is capable of coming back to her original sources and transforming them." Which of these influences do you believe are the most important in her work? What influences can you find in the pages that she created in her own diary?

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