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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The walls are complex and consist of piers, or _________, that support the vault and roof.
(a) Layers.
(b) Columns.
(c) Sheets.
(d) Boards.

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

4. After _______ more years of labor the walls of the choir and aisle are completed and work begins on the cathedral roof.
(a) Five.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Ten.

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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the master craftsman take on?

2. The arcade of piers rises how far from the foundation?

3. These buttresses look like ___________.

4. While the windows are being installed the underside of the vaulted ceiling is ____________.

5. Construction continues through ________ when the transept and most of its vaulting is completed.

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