HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE d.

Mapua Institute of Architecture

1. An earthen mound use for burials of couple to hundreds of ordinary 15. What Americas greatest contribution to Architecture?
persons. a. Skyscrapers
a. Tumulus b. Infrastructures
b. Sarcophagus c. Elevator
c. Mastaba d. Smart Buildings
d. Serdab 16. Thai monastery is also known as ______.
2. Palace of Nebuchadnezzar or Hanging Garden of Babylon is what types of a. Bot
ziggurats? b. Wat
a. Archaic ziggurat c. Quoins
b. Two or Three-staged ziggurat d. Torii
c. Seven stages square base ziggurat 17. Art Nouveau in Germany is known as _____.
d. Ziggurats a. Jugendstil
3. A line of counterthrusting arches raised on columns of piers. b. Modernismo
a. Arcade c. Empire Style
b. Pedestal d. Neoclassicism
c. Baluster 18. What is a dominical mound containing relics of Buddha?
d. Entasis a. Wat
4. It is a conical tent traditionally made of animal skins or birch barks. b. Crenel
a. Wigwam c. Stupa
b. Teepee d. Cavetto
c. Lean to 19. Modernismo is the Art Nouveau version of what country?
d. Rock cave a. Austria
5. The clear space between two adjacent columns usually measured at the b. Italy
lower parts of the shafts. c. Spain
a. Pier d. Germany
b. Anta column 20. What is the covered walk of an atrium?
c. Pilaster a. Arcade
d. Intercolumniation b. Canopy
6. What part of an Egyptian Temple where usually surrounded by passages & c. Ambulatory
chambers used in connection with the temple services? d. Agora
a. Entrance Pylon 21. What is the bell tower, usually near but not attached to the body of the
b. Sanctuary church?
c. Hypostyle Hall a. Belfry
d. Avenue of Sphinx b. Campanile
7. The great pyramid at Giza was built during the 4th dynasty by ______. c. Baptistery
a. Cheops d. Narthex
b. Thebes 22. What do you call the slight curvature of the Greek columns?
c. Ammon a. Plinth
d. Khons b. Abacus
8. What building in the acropolis generally considered as being the most c. Echinus
nearly perfect building ever erected? d. Entasis
a. Parthenon 23. Architect of the Erechtheion is _______.
b. Obelisk a. Mnesicles
c. Pantheon b. Phidias
d. Angkor Wat c. Xerxes
9. The best example of a German Romanesque church with apses at both east d. Pelli
and west ends is ______. 24. A Roman structure used as a hall of justice and commercial exchanges is
a. Notre Dame Cathedral called _______.
b. Florence Cathedral a. Podium
c. Worms Cathedral b. Basilica
d. Little Metropole Cathedral c. Stadium
10. Who is the master sculptor of the Parthenon? d. Insula
a. Mnesicles 25. What sporting event takes place in the Palaestra?
b. Ictinus a. Skiing
c. Phidias b. Wrestling
d. Callicrates c. Dart
11. The truncated wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch. d. Futsal
a. Soffit 26. The finest of all illustrations of Roman construction.
b. Voussoir a. Parthenon
c. Archivolt b. Obelisk
d. Keystone c. Pantheon
12. What is the tall tower found in a Muslim mosque? d. Angkor Wat
a. Finial 27. Roman building for which gladiatorial battles took place.
b. Aljibo a. Lacus
c. Minaret b. Colosseum
d. Masjid c. Clepsydra
13. The Greek term for wrestling school is _____. d. Epidauros
a. Stoa 28. A large apsidal extension of the interior volume of a church.
b. Palaestra a. Abacus
c. Epidauros b. Capital
d. Agora c. Plinth
14. What is the first school of Architecture in the Philippines? d. Exedra
a. University of the Philippines Diliman 29. The lowest step in the crepidoma.
b. University of Santo Thomas a. Peripteral
c. Adamson University b. Stylobate
 c. Stereobate 42. Outstanding architectural creation in Sri Lanka which is a circular relic
d. Prostyle house built in stone and brick.
30. The memorial column built in the form of tall Doric order and made a. Wata-Dage
entirely marble is; b. Tudor-Revival
a. Column of Antoninus Pius c. Torus
b. Trajans Column d. Pagoda
c. Column of Marcus Aurelius 43. In Japan, a structure where the appreciation of the arts and flower
d. Column of Dioelectian arrangement, with drinking ceremony is done.
31. An English Architect who prepared plan for London i.e., St. Peters and St. a. Antillan House
Paul Cathedral; Proposed a Network of Avenues connecting the main features b. Belvedere
of London. c. Tea House
a. Leonardo Da Vinci d. Ken
b. Leon Battista Alberti 44. Cordillera one room house on four wooden posts with an animal or insect
c. Pierre Charles L Enfant barrier and a pyramidal roof Cogon grass built without nails.
d. Sir Christopher Wren a. Ifugao/ Bontoc House
32. It is the third phase of English-Gothic Architecture where elaborated b. Nipa Hut
ornamental vaulting, and refinement of stonecutting techniques. c. Maranao House
a. Perpendicular style d. Ivatan House
b. Rayonnant style 45. This creates an illusion of space or fool the eye are paintings adorned
c. Decorated style everything from cabinets to cupboards, fire screen to dishwashers.
d. None of these a. Torii
33. A style in the architecture Italy I the second half of the 16th century and to b. Trompe Loeil
a lesser extent elsewhere in Europe. It uses classical elements in an c. Country House
unconventional manner. d. Art Deco
a. Illusionism 46. The father of modern picture books of Architecture
b. Mannerism a. Andrea Palladio
c. Palladianism b. Leon Battista Alberti
d. Abstract c. Philibert De Lorme
34. A revival style based on the buildings and publications of the 6th century d. Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
architect marked by ancient Roman Architectural forms.
a. National Romanticism 47. He is remembered for his Ideal Cities star shaped plans with street
b. Mannerism radiating from central point, usually proposed for a church, palace or castle.
c. Palladianism a. Leonardo Da Vinci
d. Purism b. Leon Battista Alberti
35. The exposed undersurface of any overhead component of a building such c. Pierre Charles L Enfant
as an arch, balcony, beam, cornice, lintel or vault. d. Sir Christopher Wren
a. Cella 48. The sacred enclosure fond in the highest part of a Greek city is called:
b. Stupa a. Peribolas
c. Eclectic b. Pteroma
d. Soffit c. Temenos
36. Line of intersection of cross vaults. d. Corps de Logis
a. Groins 49. Also called key pattern where upper portion of a Pinnacle.
b. Coffer a. Finial
c. Buttress b. Dais
d. Vault c. Bay Window
37. A diagonal cutting of an arris formed by two surfaces at an angle. d. Helm Roof
a. Chamfer
b. Atrium 50. A school founded by Gropius in 1919, developing a form of training
c. Squinch intended to relate art and architecture to technology and the practical needs
d. Harem of modern life.
38. The central stone of a semi-circular arch, sometimes sculptured. a. Stambas Or Laths
a. Keystone b. Great Wall
b. Iconostasis c. Art Noveau
c. Verandah d. Bauhaus
d. Piazza
39. Small towers, often containing stairs, and forming special features in
Medieval buildings.
a. Turret
b. Mullions
c. Chateau
d. Fleche
40. The high platform on which temples were generally placed (in general, any
elevated platform)
a. Pilaster Strip
b. Chattris
c. Tracery
d. Podium
41. The part of a cruciform church, projecting at right angles to the main
building.
a. Tracery
b. Podium
c. Transept
d. Rib And Panel