Given a quadrilateral with 4 equal areas, prove that it is a parallelogram

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I have the next quadrilateral with midpoints E F G H. The source of the problem is my class of geometry, I read the book but I don't find anything related to this.

Quadrilateral

I found in Google about Varignon's Theorem then I do the following construction: Construction

My question is: it is correct to state that quadrilateral ABCD is a parallelogram? I think that is wrong because I don't use the areas of the statement.

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Let ABCD be a rhombus and EFGH be the rhombus formed by mid-points of sides. Any projection of ABCD on an arbitrary plane has its area reduced by a factor $\cos \theta$ where this angle is between their plane normals.

The inner rhombus area is one-fourth the outer among all the possibilities.