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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ______________, stone tracery and sixty-foot high windows, rises sixty feet for a total vertical rise of 160 feet.
(a) The aisle.
(b) The clerestory.
(c) The sanctuary.
(d) The triforium.

2. The outward buckling force is then transferred from the piers and walls to the buttresses by arches known as ___________.
(a) Singing buttresses.
(b) Sailing buttresses.
(c) Flying buttresses.
(d) Flinging buttresses.

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

4. What construction is the work site then prepared for?
(a) Scaffolding and centerings.
(b) Scaffolding and workshops.
(c) Workshops and a forge.
(d) Forges and centerings.

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

6. The roof is located above the vaulting, and consists of _____________ frames.
(a) Rectangular.
(b) Triangular.
(c) Square.
(d) Oblong.

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. In most respects, what are the two drawings typical of?
(a) Romanesque-period.
(b) Renaissance-period.
(c) Gothic-period.
(d) Baroque-period.

13. In the spring of _________ the Bishop of Chutreaux blesses the first foundation stone and it is lowered into the excavated foundations.
(a) 1253.
(b) 1325
(c) 1352.
(d) 1235.

14. The piers of the choir of Chutreaux will be ________ feet high and six to eight feet thick.
(a) 160.
(b) 220.
(c) 200.
(d) 180.

15. As the new cathedral is to be enormous, the foundation is dug to what depth?
(a) Twenty feet.
(b) Two hundred feet.
(c) Twenty-five feet.
(d) Ten feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the wall elevation show?

2. To whom are the drawings presented?

3. What kind of tools do the stone cutter's workshop and the carpenter's workshop require?

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

5. For what do they cut timber?

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