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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 21 - 40.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. For what do they cut timber?
(a) The construction of scaffolding, workshops, tools, and machines.
(b) The construction of the scaffolding and tools.
(c) The construction of the carts to haul supplies.
(d) The construction of the cathedral.
2. The space between piers is filled with tracery. What is tracery?
(a) A stone framework with glass windows.
(b) Wood chips.
(c) Insulation.
(d) Cement.
3. The outward buckling force is then transferred from the piers and walls to the buttresses by arches known as ___________.
(a) Flinging buttresses.
(b) Singing buttresses.
(c) Flying buttresses.
(d) Sailing buttresses.
4. Once the design has been approved the master carpenter takes about ___________ men into the forest of Chantilly and cuts timber.
(a) Two thousand.
(b) Twenty thousand.
(c) Two hundred.
(d) Twenty.
5. In the spring of _________ the Bishop of Chutreaux blesses the first foundation stone and it is lowered into the excavated foundations.
(a) 1325
(b) 1352.
(c) 1253.
(d) 1235.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the twelfth century the people of Europe believed that God was ___________.
2. The flying buttresses work by transferring downward forces from the walls to ___________.
3. Most of the walls are two vertical walls with a space between that is filled with ___________.
4. What is this locale equipped with?
5. Why is the answer to number 74 hung from the top of the wall instead of rising from the ground?
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