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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 60 - 80.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _______________ support the stones of the flying buttress while the mortar cures.
(a) The hurdles.
(b) The centerings.
(c) The stilts.
(d) The framers.

2. As always, what interrupts most of the work for about five months?
(a) Winter.
(b) Disease.
(c) Volcanic eruptions.
(d) Earthquakes.

3. To date, over how many men have been involved in this project?
(a) Two hundred.
(b) Five hundred.
(c) Four hundred.
(d) Three hundred.

4. What else is done to this location?
(a) It is decorated.
(b) It is destroyed.
(c) It is marked with stakes.
(d) It is smoothed.

5. How long has the project taken?
(a) About three months.
(b) About two months.
(c) About four months.
(d) About one month.

Short Answer Questions

1. Each of the bays is the square area between ________ piers at the corners.

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

3. Why are the new stonework and mortar covered in this?

4. Who replaces William of Planz?

5. As the men walk so the axle turns and winds up ________, lifting very heavy loads from the floor.

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