Picturesque Journeys Test

Frida Kahlo made paintings that were like "visual autobiographies." What can Kahlo's frequent use of self-portraits could be traced to? (Page 161)

• the influence of Diego Rivera

• her early life affliction with polio and success as a competitive athlete

• her time in the hospital recovering from a bus accident at age 18

• her love of her homeland, Mexico

Frida Kahlo often included tropical plants and animals in her paintings. The story suggests that these features held what meaning for Kahlo? (Use pg. 164)

• the beauty of nature
• the desire to understand her own identity
• her dreams of a different life
• her respect for the talents of Paul Gaugin, a painter she admired.

Which of the these statements might have been something that Kahlo was suggesting with "Self-Portrait Along the Border Line Between Mexico and the United States"? (Use page 162)

• Frida Kahlo often stood on the border line between the U.S. and Mexico.
• Frida Kahlo always carried a Mexican flag to honor her homeland.
• Mexico did not have any factories or industry at the time of this painting.
• Kahlo was trying to contrast the present with the past using the symbols from each country.

Which of these elements is NOT commonly found in Frida Kahlo's paintings?

• large cities and skyscrapers

• Frida Kahlo herself
• colors of the Mexican flag
• tropical plants and animals

Which of the following statements is NOT true in the story?

• Frida Kahlo contracted polio at an early age.
• Frida Kahlo first became interested in painting after Diego Rivera told her she had talent.
• Frida Kahlo's facial expressions in her self-portraits helped viewers understand what was happening at that moment in her life.
• Frida Kahlo deeply missed her homeland during her travels to other places.

Which words in paragraph 15 help the reader best understand what rural means?

• parents were dairy farmers
• of Irish and Hungarian backgrounds
• of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
• in a farmhouse surrounded by trees, wildflowers, and grasslands

Which of the following would have been the most likely to inspire Georgia O'Keefe in her first paintings? (pg. 165)

• a beautiful white rose
• a colossal business tower
• a smattering of half-buried animal skulls
• a rose-colored desert mesa

What important effect did O' Keefe's study under Arthur Wesley Dow have on her career? (page 166)

• She learned how to create large-scale paintings of nature at close range.
• She became a master at painting mountain landscapes.
• She began to travel around the country teaching other painters her unique methods of painting flowers.
• She became one of the first American artists to draw in an abstract style.

Which of the following is true about the setting of Georgia O' Keefe's career? (Hint: The answer is found in a caption.)

• O' Keefe's curious nature led her to spend most of her adult life in a cabin in the Adirondack Mountains.
• O' Keefe lived in New York during the 1950s.
• O' Keefe traveled to Mount Fuji in Hawaii at one point in her career.
• O' Keefe lived and worked in Abiquiu from 1949 to 1984.

What was O'Keefe's inspiration for her art?

• Growing up on a farm

• Growing up in the city

• Her family

• Her pets