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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did all this lumber and stone get to Chutreaux?
(a) By wagon along a dirt path.
(b) By train through the countryside.
(c) By ships sailing through the ocean.
(d) By ships sailing up the river.

3. What halts construction for five months?
(a) A terrible storm.
(b) A volcanic eruption.
(c) The winter.
(d) An earthquake.

4. The arcade of piers rises how far from the foundation?
(a) One hundred forty.
(b) One hundred twenty.
(c) Eighty feet.
(d) One hundred feet.

5. How many staircases does Chutreaux have?
(a) Nine.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Three.

6. Workmen reach the scaffolding by using ______________ built into the walls of the cathedral.
(a) An elevator.
(b) The wooden circular staircases.
(c) Stilts.
(d) The stone circular staircases.

7. During this time the new stonework and new in-place mortar are covered with what?
(a) Plaster.
(b) Paint.
(c) A matting of straw and dung.
(d) Fabric.

8. Who fabricates the wood components of the tools?
(a) The cooper.
(b) The blacksmith.
(c) The woodworkers.
(d) The wheelwright.

9. The master quarryman supervises about ____________ men cutting limestone.
(a) Thirty thousand.
(b) Three hundred.
(c) Three thousand.
(d) Thirty.

10. Many simple laborers perform heavy manual labor. Where are these individuals from?
(a) The citizenry of Chutreaux.
(b) The surrounding countryside.
(c) Other parts of France.
(d) Other countries in Europe.

11. At this time the cathedral has been under construction for how many years?
(a) Eighteen years.
(b) Twenty-eight years.
(c) Eight years.
(d) Eighty years.

12. This typical ________ architecture technique allowed the piers to remain thin relative to their height.
(a) Gothic.
(b) Hellenistic.
(c) Romanesque.
(d) Baroque.

13. Most of the walls are two vertical walls with a space between that is filled with ___________.
(a) Straw.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Stone.
(d) Insulation.

14. Why are many houses demolished?
(a) The new cathedral is much larger than the old one.
(b) The houses are not pleasing to the eye.
(c) The owners have not paid their mortgages.
(d) The new cathedral is in a different style from these homes.

15. The cut lumber is transported ___________ miles.
(a) Very few.
(b) Two.
(c) Thousands of.
(d) Several.

Short Answer Questions

1. The buttresses must be built upon temporary wooden frames called ____________.

2. Does the floor plan show only the general outline?

3. For what do they cut timber?

4. _____________, a row of arches and a narrow passageway, rises twenty feet.

5. William produces a floor plan and a wall elevation drawing. What is it based on?

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