Q 01/05

In which Mexican city was Diego Rivera born?

A) Guadalajara

B) Guanajuato

C) Puebla

D) Oaxaca

Answer · why

B) Guanajuato

Guanajuato is where his parents, finding the small boy drawing on the walls of the house, answered by giving him wall space of his own to cover.

Q 02/05

Rivera and Frida Kahlo lived in her family home in Coyoacán, now a museum, known by which name?

A) The Yellow House

B) The House of Tiles

C) The Blue House

D) The House of Mirrors

Answer · why

C) The Blue House

The Blue House, La Casa Azul, takes its name from its cobalt walls; after Kahlo died there in 1954, Rivera left it to the Mexican people, and it opene...

Q 03/05

Rivera's murals helped inspire which of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal agencies?

A) The Civilian Conservation Corps

B) The Works Progress Administration

C) The Tennessee Valley Authority

D) The National Recovery Administration

Answer · why

B) The Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration put jobless artists to work on public walls, an idea credited in part to the example Rivera set with his murals of A...

Q 04/05

The separate studio-houses built for Rivera and Kahlo in San Ángel were linked by what?

A) An underground tunnel

B) A rooftop bridge

C) A shared kitchen

D) A glass corridor

Answer · why

B) A rooftop bridge

A rooftop bridge was the only link between the two buildings Rivera commissioned from Juan O'Gorman in 1931, one for each of them, independent of each...

Q 05/05

Kahlo's mother called her daughter's marriage to Rivera an elephant and a what?

A) Butterfly

B) Sparrow

C) Swallow

D) Dove

Answer · why

D) Dove

Dove to his elephant: Rivera was tall, heavy and already 42, Kahlo petite, fragile and 22, when they married in August 1929.