View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are these wooden arches placed from pier to pier?
(a) To give the vaulted ceiling stone ribs support while the mortar cures.
(b) To make the ceiling curve.
(c) To give support to sculptures and light fixtures that are to hang from the vaulted ceiling.
(d) To make the ceiling more aesthetically pleasing.

2. To what might this unique device be compared?
(a) An elevator.
(b) A wheel for guinea pigs.
(c) A pulley.
(d) A crane.

3. It is then cut into shape using a tool called ________ iron.
(a) A grizing.
(b) A gruzing.
(c) A grozing.
(d) A grazing.

4. Masons then lay courses of light __________ stones over the wooden spanners.
(a) Tracery.
(b) Lagging.
(c) Webbing.
(d) Wood spanners.

5. By ___________ the cathedral is completed.
(a) 1338.
(b) 1358.
(c) 1345.
(d) 1340.

Short Answer Questions

1. Soon thereafter who dies and is replaced?

2. What are these down spouts called?

3. In 1280, how long has it been since construction started?

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

5. Various kinds of metals are added to different batches of glass to___________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are vassoirs?

2. What is the step that takes place after the ribs are completed?

3. How is the ceiling constructed?

4. How does the casting process for the bells begin? What is the purpose of the wax?

5. How are the bells finished?

6. Describe the workings of the great wheel.

7. What are cast for the cathedral? How are they unique?

8. Describe the cathedral's three huge doors.

9. What happens in 1306?

10. How is the stone for the vaulted ceiling lifted?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 780 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample