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GREEK ARCHITECTURE-HOA 1

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What Greek structure is used for foot-race?

a)

A. Stadium

b)

B. Theater

c)

C. Bouleterion

d)

D. Fountain House

2.

Which stones are typicall used for Greek temples?

a)

A. Granite and Mudbricks

b)

B. Limestone and Marble

c)

C. Wood and Bricks

d)

D. Sandstone and limestone

3.

Which is the most important chamber of a Greek temple?

a)

A. Pronaos

b)

B. Opisthodomos

c)

C. Epinaos

d)

D. Naos

4.

Which of the following Greek structure is included in the 7 ancient wonders of the world?

a)

A. Parthenon

b)

B. Mausoleum at Hallicarnassus

c)

C. Temple of Zeus

d)

D. Pyramids at Giza

Question No. 7 – Ang open space

5.

An open space or public market place in ancient Greece is called what?

a)

A. Boulioterion

b)

B. Agora

c)

C. Parthenon

d)

D. Stadium

6.

A female figured column is called what?

a)

A. Atlas

b)

B. Telemon

c)

C. Caryatid

d)

D. Ionic

7.

Which of the following Greek column has no base?

a)

A. Doric

b)

B. Corinthian

c)

C. Composite

d)

D. Ionic

8.

What do you call the masonry base of an ancient Greek temple?

a)

A. Pediment

b)

B. Entablature

c)

C. Crepidoma

d)

D. Capital

9.

What is the general characteristics of the entrance of a greek tomb?

a)

A. Arched posts

b)

B. Corbeled walls

c)

C. Post & lintel

d)

D. Ordinary earth

10.

Temple of Apollo is the most sacred temple for the Greeks because it houses the _________

a)

A. Oracle of Delphi

b)

B. Sacred Treasure

c)

C. Figure of Zeus

d)

D. Caryatid Statues

11.

What do you call this column in Greeks that shows a women carrying a heads baskets with live reeds?

a)

A. Anthenian

b)

B. Caryatids

c)

C. Atlas

d)

D. Karyai

12.

What do you call the counterpart of a Caryatid in which it is a support sculpted in the form of a man.

a)

A. Hippodrome

b)

B. Agora

c)

C. Sparta

d)

D. Atlas

13.

What do you call the period around 1100- 800 BC with no there were written historical texts during the period ?

a)

A. Greek Dark Ages

b)

B. Archaic Period

c)

C. Hellenistic Period

d)

D. Hellenic Period

14.

Who is the earliest ruler during the Minoan period?

a)

A. King Mini

b)

B. Queen Mina

c)

C. King Minos

d)

D. Queen Elizabeth

15.

Which of the following is NOT a body of water that surrounds Greek civilization as mentioned in our discussion?

a)

A. Aegean Sea

b)

B. Mediterranean sea

c)

C. Caspian sea

d)

D. Ionian sea

16.

What civilization does NOT use fortifications?

a)

A. Minoan Civilization

b)

B. Mycenean Civilization

c)

C. Main Greek Civilization

17.

What do you call this type of Greek Plan that have no protruding sidewalls and only detached columns in front ?

a)

A. Naos

b)

B. Anta

c)

C. Prostyle

d)

D. Amphiprostyle

18.

What do you call the term applied to a building that appears to have an arrangement of surrounding columns LIKE A DIPTERAL temple?

a)

A. PSEUDOPERIPTERAL

b)

B. PSEUDODIPTERAL

c)

C. AMPHIPROSTYLE

d)

D. THOLOS

19.

What is the most distinguising character of an Ionic Order?

a)

A. Volutes

b)

B. Acanthus Leaves

c)

C. No Base

20.

What do you call the base part of the Greek temples that is composed of 3 steps.

a)

A. Crepidoma

b)

B. Column

c)

C. Entablature

d)

D. Stereobate

21.

What do you call the slight convex curve used in the temples to correct the optical illusion

a)

A. Metope

b)

B. Cyma Reversa

c)

C. Cyma Recta

d)

D. Entasis

22.

What do you call the rectangular or square ribbonlike bands that separate moldings and ornaments

a)

A. Astragal

b)

B. Ovolo

c)

C. Fillet

d)

D. Scotia

23.

What is the name of the Island where the Minoans lived?

a)

A. Knossos

b)

B. Crete

c)

C. Pythia

d)

D. Sparta

24.

What do you call the war fought in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta

(a)  

25.

What do you call the colonnaded porch or entrance to a Greek temple structure?

a)

A. Naos

b)

B. Pronaos

c)

C. Portico

d)

D. Balcony

26.

Which period is not part of the development of Greek Civilization?

a)

A. Archaic Period

b)

B. Hellenistic Period

c)

C. Age of Enlightenment

d)

D. Hellenic Period

27.

True or False: Greek city-states are totally

independent of each other. No central government rules

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

28.

TRUE OR FALSE : They believe that sports and the arts are important to have good relationship of body and mind.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

29.

What type of religion do Greeks have?

a)

A. Monotheistic

b)

B. Polytheistic

c)

C. Atheism

d)

D. Animism

30.

What do you call the organized urban center with a surrounding country-side in Greek?

a)

A. Temple

b)

B. Agora

c)

C.Polis

d)

D. Hippodrome

31.

What is the meaning of Acropolis

a)

A. Lower City

b)

B. Upper City

c)

C. Blank City

d)

D. Open City

32.

TRUE or FALSE : Greeks are not fond of socialization outside, porticoes and colonnades were also popular with them.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

33.

In Greek Name , What do you call the Goddess of wisdom and learning?

a)

A. Hestia

b)

B. Minerva

c)

C. Athena

d)

D. Apollo

34.

True or False: Greeks adapted Egyptians stone building techniques to their construction of temples.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

35.

What do you call this is a mathematical ratio that impart a sense of balance to a structure .

a)

A. Entasis

b)

B. Golden Ratio

c)

C. Shell Ratio

d)

D. Megaron

36.

What is the type of this temple shown in the image base on the number of columns?

a)

A. Heptastyle

b)

B. Decastyle

c)

C. Diastyle

d)

D.Dodecastyle

37.

What do you call a temple having an intercolumniation of 3 Diameters.

a)

A. Eustyle

b)

B. Diastyle

c)

C. Systyle

d)

D. Araeostyle

38.

It is a system for spacing Greek columns in a collonade measured in diameters.

a)

A. Columniation

b)

B. Spatial Distance

c)

C. Entasis

d)

D. Intercolumniation

39.

What do you call the public building which is usually refer to theaters used for performances with poetry and singing.

a)

A. Theatron

b)

B. Hippodrome

c)

C. Bouleuterion

d)

D. Odeon

40.

The Greek Architecture is essentially what?

a)

A. Columnar and Vaulted

b)

B. Arch and Vaulted

c)

C. Columnar and Trabeated

d)

D. Masonry and Glass