Q 01/05

Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 in Coyoacán, then a village on the outskirts of where?

A) Mexico City

B) Guadalajara

C) Oaxaca

D) Puebla

Answer · why

A) Mexico City

She always claimed to have been born at La Casa Azul, though the registry says it was her grandmother's house nearby.

Q 02/05

Kahlo's father Guillermo, who emigrated from Germany in 1891, worked as what?

A) A pharmacist

B) A piano teacher

C) A photographer

D) An architect

Answer · why

C) A photographer

He taught her to retouch and colour photographs; his business suffered badly during the Mexican Revolution.

Q 03/05

Kahlo said her father was Jewish. What did German genealogists find in 2006?

A) He was Catholic

B) He was a Lutheran

C) He was Hungarian, not German

D) He was born in Mexico

Answer · why

B) He was a Lutheran

She had claimed her paternal grandparents were Jews from Arad.

Q 04/05

Which illness at age six left Kahlo's right leg shorter and thinner than her left?

A) Rickets

B) Tuberculosis

C) Scarlet fever

D) Polio

Answer · why

D) Polio

The isolation made her reclusive but also her father's favourite; he encouraged her to play sports to recover strength.

Q 05/05

At the National Preparatory School, Kahlo was one of how many girls among 2,000 students?

A) 35

B) 5

C) 120

D) 400

Answer · why

A) 35

She studied natural sciences hoping to become a physician and ran with a rebellious clique called the Cachuchas.