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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 41 - 59.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _____________, a row of arches and a narrow passageway, rises twenty feet.
(a) The triforium.
(b) The pier.
(c) The emporium.
(d) The trefoils.

2. What happens to the old cathedral?
(a) It is moved.
(b) It is demolished.
(c) It is altered.
(d) It is not touched.

3. What is this locale equipped with?
(a) Pneumatic chisels.
(b) Activities for the families of the workers.
(c) Workshops and a forge.
(d) Restaurants and inns.

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

5. Most importantly, the stone cutters work inside ___________.
(a) Polishing the stone tracery, capitals, and sculptures.
(b) Designing the stone tracery, capitals, and sculptures.
(c) Adding mortar the the stone.
(d) Dressing stone and cutting tracery, capitals, and sculptures.

Short Answer Questions

1. The flying buttresses work by transferring downward forces from the walls to ___________.

2. They meet at the center of the bay in a crossing pattern and are locked together by what?

3. Who replaces William of Planz?

4. Masons then lay courses of light __________ stones over the wooden spanners.

5. Each _____________ is mortared together.

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