5.8.2 - Quiz: Word Choice in a Biography Quiz

A biography is

Correct answer
A.
a true story written about a real person by someone else
Read the excerpt from Frida Kahlo by Hedda Garza.

Aside from the caricatures she had scribbled in school and the drawings for Fernando Fernández, Kahlo had never paid much attention to art. She began teaching herself from art books, studying the works of the Italian Renaissance artists and experimenting with the colors in her father's paint box. She painted portraits of visitors and relatives who were willing to sit and pose for her and gave the paintings away as gifts.
Why would the author include this event in the biography?

Correct answer
A.
It describes Frida Kahlo's first experiences with painting.
Read the excerpt from Frida Kahlo by Hedda Garza.

Curious to know more about the daring young girl below, the bulky Rivera made the slow descent to the ground floor. Kahlo wasted no time in preliminaries. . . . "I have come to show you my paintings," she told him audaciously. She told him her name and Rivera remembered that just a few years earlier, the director of the National Preparatory had told him that the girl who had caused him so much trouble was the same Frida Kahlo. Instead of becoming angry at Kahlo's audacity, the unconventional artist was delighted to meet his former tormentor face to face.
The author seems to admire Frida Kahlo's brave personality. Which detail supports these feelings?
D.
Diego Rivera was not angry with Frida's boldness; he was happy to meet her.
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