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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What else does this ceiling also require?
(a) Many architectural details.
(b) Sculptures and paintings.
(c) A great deal of mortar.
(d) A unique device is used to raise the stone and mortar to the ceiling.

2. In 1280, how long has it been since construction started?
(a) Thirty years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Thirty-eight years.
(d) Twenty-eight years.

3. The glass is removed from the pipe and _________.
(a) Pressed.
(b) Cooled.
(c) Polished.
(d) Heated.

4. What do the people do during this time to raise money?
(a) They display the remains of Saint Germain and request financial donations.
(b) The write letters to the Pope.
(c) They have a bake sale.
(d) They ask the king to help them.

5. This unique device is essentially a man-sized __________ that is operated by one or two men who walk around the inside of it.
(a) Wheel.
(b) Platform.
(c) Lever.
(d) Crane.

6. They meet at the center of the bay in a crossing pattern and are locked together by what?
(a) A steel keystone.
(b) A specially-shaped keystone.
(c) Cement.
(d) Mortar.

7. The wax is then coated in ___________.
(a) Copper.
(b) Cement.
(c) More clay and plaster of Paris.
(d) Steel.

8. The process begins when a solid model of the bell is made in ___________.
(a) Plaster of Paris.
(b) Clay and plaster of Paris.
(c) Cement.
(d) Clay.

9. In 1302 the glass makers begin to make the colored glass for ___________.
(a) The sculptures.
(b) The huge cathedral windows.
(c) The skylights.
(d) The floor tiles.

10. In what year, does work resume?
(a) 1321.
(b) 1311.
(c) 1315.
(d) 1320.

11. The ceiling will be constructed using how many bays at a time?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

12. The glass is spun outward into ___________.
(a) A large curved disk.
(b) A large balloon.
(c) A large flat disk.
(d) A large oval.

13. By 1330 what is finally completed?
(a) The altar.
(b) The pews.
(c) The windows.
(d) The nave.

14. These sheets are used to cover ___________________ making a weatherproof roof.
(a) The roof boards.
(b) The shingles.
(c) The lead frame.
(d) The wooden frame.

15. Why are the roof timbers coated in this?
(a) To prevent them from catching on fire.
(b) To prevent them from buckling.
(c) To prevent them from falling down.
(d) To prevent them from rotting.

Short Answer Questions

1. These drain pipes then go to down spouts located on ___________.

2. By 1332 the___________________, of the cathedral is nearly complete.

3. The glass makers then take a molten lump of glass on the end of a large hollow pipe and do what with it?

4. How does he die?

5. The cathedral is mostly complete and has taken how many years to build thus far?

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