Q 01/05

In which Mexican city was Diego Rivera born in 1886?

A) Guadalajara

B) Guanajuato

C) Puebla

D) Oaxaca

Answer · why

B) Guanajuato

His twin brother Carlos died at two; Diego started drawing a year later and his parents covered the walls in chalkboards.

Q 02/05

How many wives did Rivera have?

A) Two

B) Three

C) Four

D) Five

Answer · why

C) Four

A fellow artist, a novelist, Frida Kahlo and finally his agent; his only son died at the age of two.

Q 03/05

Rivera's first wife, Angelina Beloff, came from which empire?

A) Austria-Hungary

B) Russia

C) The Ottoman lands

D) Germany

Answer · why

B) Russia

Elena Poniatowska's 1978 novel Dear Diego, with Love, Quiela is built from Beloff's letters to him.

Q 04/05

Rivera's second wife, Guadalupe Marín, worked as a model and what else?

A) A sculptor

B) A dancer

C) A novelist

D) A photographer

Answer · why

C) A novelist

Her semi-autobiographical novel La Única appeared in 1938; she appears as a fertile goddess in his Chapingo chapel mural.

Q 05/05

How old was Rivera when he married the 22-year-old Kahlo in 1929?

A) 42

B) 45

C) 48

D) 52

Answer · why

A) 42

Her parents called it a marriage between an elephant and a dove.