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Architecture

Total questions: 57

Worksheet time: 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The profession of designing buildings.

a)

Framing

b)

Architecture

c)

Architectural Style

d)

Landscape Architecture

2.

A person who designs buildings.

a)

Carpenter

b)

Interior Designer

c)

Architect

d)

Landscape Architect

3.

A career in architecture and construction would require which endorsement for your high school graduation plan?

a)

Business and Industry

b)

Multi-Disciplinary

c)

Arts and Humanities

d)

Public Service

4.

Large buildings such as temples, palaces, and pyramids, usually made of stone, built by means of the collective labor of many people.

a)

Landscape Architecture

b)

Architectural Style

c)

Architecture

d)

Monumental Architecture

5.

What type of monumental architecture is this?

a)

Pyramid

b)

Ziggurat

c)

Mastaba

d)

Obelisk

6.

What type of monumental architecture is this?

a)

Ziggurat

b)

Mastaba

c)

Sphinx

d)

Pyramid

7.

What is the formula for the volume of a pyramid?

a)

1/2bh

b)

bh

c)

1/3Bh

d)

s2

8.

What is the volume of this pyramid?

a)

32

b)

128

c)

16

d)

224

9.

What were pyramids used for?

a)

Tombs

b)

Palaces

c)

Warehouses

d)

Banks

10.

The smooth, angled sides of a pyramid symbolize what?

a)

The four elements

b)

The four phases of matter

c)

The rays of the sun

d)

The golden mean

11.

What type of monumental architecture is this?

a)

Mastaba

b)

Pyramid

c)

Obelisk

d)

Ziggurat

12.

Who was the world's first architect?

a)

Djoser

b)

Snefru

c)

Imhotep

d)

Khufu

13.

What did Imhotep build?

a)

The Pyramids of Giza

b)

The Step Pyramid of Djoser

c)

The Sphinx

d)

Karnak

14.

What was the world's first stone structure?

a)

Stonehenge

b)

Stone Mountain

c)

The Pyramids of Giza

d)

The Step Pyramid of Djoser

15.

Which pyramid was the world's first true pyramid?

a)

The Great Pyramid of Giza

b)

The Red Pyramid

c)

The Step Pyramid

d)

King Tut's Tomb

16.

Who built the Great Pyramid of Giza?

a)

Snefru

b)

Imhotep

c)

Khufu

d)

Hulu

17.

What is this temple to the Greek goddess Athena called?

a)

The Pantheon

b)

The Pentagon

c)

The Parthenon

d)

The Pythagoron

18.

Where is the Parthenon located?

a)

Rome, Italy

b)

Seville, Spain

c)

Athens, Greece

d)

Paris, France

19.

What does AD mean?

a)

Anno Domini

b)

2 + 2

c)

Any Dominoes?

d)

Any Day

20.

What happened to the Parthenon?

a)

A flatulent Zeus

b)

Tornado

c)

Angry mob

d)

Got blowed up by gunpowder

21.

An upright, cylindrical structure, usually made of stone, used as a building support.

a)

Arch

b)

Keystone

c)

Column

d)

Vault

22.

What are the three parts of a column?

a)

base (plinth), shaft, capital

b)

bottom, middle, top

c)

arch, keystone, vault

d)

it's all one piece

23.

What are the three types of classic capitals?

a)

Greek, Roman, Persian

b)

Smooth, Fluted, Carved

c)

Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

d)

Phoenician, Carthic, Dorean

24.

What type of capitals are these?

a)

Doric

b)

Ionic

c)

Corinthian

d)

Phoenician

25.

What type of capital is this?

a)

Doric

b)

Ionic

c)

Corinthian

d)

Phoenician

26.

What type of capital is this?

a)

Doric

b)

Ionic

c)

Corinthian

d)

Phoenician

27.

What is this temple turned church called?

a)

The Pantheon

b)

The Parthenon

c)

The Pentagon

d)

The Pythagaron

28.

Where is the Pantheon?

a)

Athens, Greece

b)

Rome, Italy

c)

Venice, Italy

d)

Paris, France

29.

What is the hole in the roof of the Pantheon called?

a)

The Sun Roof

b)

The Oculus

c)

The Door to Heaven

d)

The Vent

30.

A very large building for Christian worship usually made of stone.

a)

Mosque

b)

Ziggurat

c)

Aqueduct

d)

Cathedral

31.

What is this church turned mosque turned museum called?

a)

Parthenon

b)

Pantheon

c)

Hagia Sophia

d)

Colosseum

32.

Where is the Hagia Sophia?

a)

Rome, Italy

b)

Athens, Greece

c)

Istanbul, Turkey

d)

Seville, Spain

33.

What is the name of this cathedral (Our Lady)?

a)

Sagrada Familia

b)

Hagia Sophia

c)

Notre Dame

d)

St. Anthony's

34.

Where is Notre Dame located?

a)

Paris, France

b)

Rome, Italy

c)

Seville, Spain

d)

Istanbul, Turkey

35.

What is the name of the curved symmetrical structures represented in this picture?

a)

Vaults

b)

Columns

c)

Buttresses

d)

Arches

36.

A part of a building consisting of an arrangement of arches, usually forming a ceiling or roof.

a)

Oculus

b)

Arch

c)

Vault

d)

Buttress

37.

A vault forming a half cylinder.

a)

Fan

b)

Barrel

c)

Groin

d)

Rib

38.

A vault produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults.

a)

Fan

b)

Barrel

c)

Groin

d)

Rib

39.

A groin vault supported by a series of arched diagonal ribs that divide the vault's surface into panels.

a)

Corbel

b)

Barrel

c)

Groin

d)

Rib

40.

What kind of vaulted ceiling does Notre Dame have?

a)

Corbel

b)

Rib

c)

Groin

d)

Barrel

41.

A structure built against or extending from a wall which serves to support or strengthen the wall.

a)

Vault

b)

Buttress

c)

Arch

d)

Column

42.

What type of buttresses support the walls of Notre Dame?

a)

Leaping

b)

Vertical

c)

Leaning

d)

Flying

43.

What is the name of this cathedral?

a)

Hagia Sophia

b)

Sagrada Familia

c)

Notre Dame

d)

Padre Nuestro

44.

Where is the Sagrada Familia cathedral located?

a)

Paris, France

b)

Rome, Italy

c)

Barcelona, Spain

d)

Athens, Greece

45.

What is the name of this Hindu temple that was converted to a Buddhist temple?

a)

Angkor Wat

b)

Sagrada Familia

c)

Notre Dame

d)

Hagia Sophia

46.

Where is Angkor Wat located?

a)

Cambodia

b)

Laos

c)

Thailand

d)

Vietnam

47.

Which religion does this building serve?

a)

Christianity

b)

Hinduism

c)

Islam

d)

Buddhism

48.

What do you call an Islamic church?

a)

Mosque

b)

Cathedral

c)

Temple

d)

Shrine

49.

What was this structure used for?

a)

Chariot Races

b)

Gladiator Fights

c)

Theater (Plays)

d)

Senate Meetings

50.

What is this structure called?

a)

The Pantheon

b)

The Parthenon

c)

Sagrada Familia

d)

The Colosseum

51.

Where is the Colosseum?

a)

Athens, Greece

b)

Istanbul, Turkey

c)

Rome, Italy

d)

Paris, France

52.

What does amphitheater mean?

a)

Two Theaters

b)

Theaters with Dolby Surround Sound

c)

Half a Theater

d)

An Opera House

53.

What is the name of this building?

a)

Sagrada Familia

b)

Hagia Sophia

c)

Taj Mahal

d)

Step Pyramid

54.

Where is the Taj Mahal?

a)

Bombay, India

b)

Calcutta, India

c)

New Delhi, India

d)

Agra, India

55.

Who had the Taj Mahal built?

a)

Shere Khan

b)

Shah Jahan

c)

King George III

d)

Genghis Khan

56.

For whom was the Taj Mahal built?

a)

Shah Jahan

b)

Mumtaz Mahal

c)

Shere Khan

d)

Genghis Khan

57.

What is the Taj Mahal?

a)

A Palace

b)

A Church

c)

An Observatory

d)

A Tomb

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