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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. Who is Isabel Villasenor?

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

3. What does Frida equate with being alive?

4. Why does Frida create a list of things she is thankful for?

5. Which of the following did Frida write over an image of a foot?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What image does Lowe write that Frida paints from "a worm's-eye view"?

4. What does Frida write about her leg?

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

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

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

8. How does Frida categorize her art?

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

10. How does Frida depict skeletons?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Frida creates a two page entry in memory of her poet friend Isabel "Chabela" Villasenor, who died shortly before she created them. She also created her own kind of free-association poems. How would you describe Frida's use of poetry? Is there a relationship between her poems and her art?

Essay Topic 2

Fuentes writes that Frida is intimately linked with Mexican history. He compares her physical pain to Mexico's "bloody" traumas. He also writes that she was born with the Revolution and "both mirrors and transcends the central event of twentieth-century Mexico." What evidence does Fuentes offer to support this statement? Is there any evidence of this in the Diary itself, or the pages that Frida created? Do you agree or disagree with Fuentes' statement? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Lowe compares the reception of Frida's self-portraits (sometimes thought "excessively personal and self-referential") to those of Rembrant and VanGogh (who, she claims, express sentiments "considered applicable to all of 'mankind'"). Explain whether or not you believe that Frida's artistic expression is something that could be universally understood.

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