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Introduction to Architectural Engineering MCQ

What are voussoirs?

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Correct Answer: Wedge shaped blocks holding the curve of the arch

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What is the tympanum?

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Correct Answer: The sculptural area enclosed by the arch above the doors of a cathedral

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What is the function of the triforium?

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Correct Answer: The triforium is an arcaded story between the nave arcade and the clerestory

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What is tracery?

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Correct Answer: Decorative carved stonework of a medieval church window

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What does rib the stone arch do?

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Correct Answer: It supports and strengthens the vault of a cathedral.

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What is a mullion?

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Correct Answer: The narrow upright stone pier used to divide the panels of glass in a window

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What is the highest part of the arch called?

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Correct Answer: Crown

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What is the cathedra?

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Correct Answer: The bishop's chair

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What is a buttress?

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Correct Answer: A large stone pier built against or connected to a wall to provide extra strength

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The term "arcade" refers to

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Correct Answer: The row of piers and arches that separate the main spaces of a cathedral from the aisles

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What is a flying buttress?

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Correct Answer: A buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch

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What are the characteristic of Romanesque architecture?

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Correct Answer: All of these

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What is a ciborium?

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Correct Answer: A canopy over an altar in a church, standing on four pillars.

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What is a Solomonic column?

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Correct Answer: A spiraling, twisted column derived from those at Solomon's temple

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What is a pilaster?

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Correct Answer: A rectangular column projecting from a wall

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What is the purpose of an engaged column?

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Correct Answer: Decorative

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What is Classical Greek Architecture known for?

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Correct Answer: Symmetry & proportion

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What does the word "Stylobate" mean?

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Correct Answer: The uppermost course of the platform of a Greek temple, which supports the columns

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What is the meaning of "gable"?

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Correct Answer: The triangular part of a wall that is enclosed between the sloping portions of a roof.

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What is a volute?

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Correct Answer: A spiral, scroll-like form characteristic of the ancient Greek Ionic and the Roman Composite capital.

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What is the middle element of an entablature?

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Correct Answer: Frieze

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What is a Metope?

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Correct Answer: A panel between the triglyphs in a Doric frieze, often sculpted in relief

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What is a triglyph?

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Correct Answer: A panel carved into three vertical bands, alternating with the metopes on a Doric frieze.

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What is a keystone?

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Correct Answer: The wedge-shaped central locking at the top of the arch

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What is a groin vault?

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Correct Answer: The intersection of two barrel vaults

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What is a dome?

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Correct Answer: An arch rotated 360 degrees horizontally

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Which of the following is true about a barrel vault?

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Correct Answer: It is a series of arches forming a tunnel

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What is an arch?

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Correct Answer: A structure that spans a space and supports a load.

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What is the topmost step, on which the columns rest, called?

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Correct Answer: Stylobate

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What is the meaning of the word stereobate?

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Correct Answer: The substructure of a building

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What is High Relief?

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Correct Answer: Sculptures carved out of a block of stone so deeply that they seem to stand independently

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What is low relief?

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Correct Answer: Sculptural relief that projects very little from the background

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What is relief sculpture?

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Correct Answer: Sculpture that projects from a flat background

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What is the pronaos?

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Correct Answer: The portico of a temple

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What is post and lintel a type of construction in which?

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Correct Answer: Horizontal beams are held by vertical supports

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What is a post?

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Correct Answer: A vertical supporting member

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What is another word for portico?

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Correct Answer: Porch

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What are the panels between triglyphs in a Doric frieze called?

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Correct Answer: Metope

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What is a lintel?

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Correct Answer: A horizontal beam resting its two ends upon separate posts (like the top of a doorway)

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What is the entablature?

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Correct Answer: The horizontal group of elements above the capital, divided into three major parts—architrave, frieze, and cornice

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What is the echinus?

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Correct Answer: The circular molding immediately under the square abacus of a Doric capital

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What is the definition of "dentil"?

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Correct Answer: One of a series of block-like projections forming a molding

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What is the cornice?

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Correct Answer: The upper part of the entablature in Classical architecture.

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What is a column?

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Correct Answer: A supporting pillar

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What is a colonnade?

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Correct Answer: A row of columns with their entablatures

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What is a caryatid?

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Correct Answer: A column taking the form of a sculpted female figure

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What is the base of a column?

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Correct Answer: The part of a column between the shaft and the pedestal.

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What is the architrave?

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Correct Answer: The horizontal portion of the entablature resting directly on top of the columns or piers

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What is the distinguishing feature of a Corinthian capital?

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Correct Answer: Acanthus

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What is the most distinctive feature of a Corinthian Order column?

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Correct Answer: The capital is decorated with leaf carvings.

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What is the most ornate column shaft?

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Correct Answer: Corinthian Order

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What is the Ionic Order characterized by?

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Correct Answer: A fluted column shaft and capitals with volutes.

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What is X bracing?

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Correct Answer: A pair of diagonal braces or struts from corner to corner forming an "X."

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What is a window hood?

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Correct Answer: A projecting shelf-like decorative element over a window.

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What is Vitrolite?

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Correct Answer: Panels formed of clear glass with color glass laminated to one side and used as a wall veneer.

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What is the purpose of a verge board?

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Correct Answer: Decorative boarding along a projecting roof eave

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What is Veneer?

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Correct Answer: A thin decorative finish typically made of brick, stone, or stucco.

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What is a turret?

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Correct Answer: A small tower at the corner of a building.

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What is a transom?

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Correct Answer: A small window placed above a door or window.

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What is Terra cotta?

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Correct Answer: Fired ceramic clay used in architectural wall elements or ornaments.

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What is the name of a cone-shaped roof element with a steep point?

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Correct Answer: Spire

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What is a spandrel panel?

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Correct Answer: The panel formed by the bottom of a window and the head of a lower window.

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What are sidelights?

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Correct Answer: Narrow windows flanking an entry door.

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What is a shed roof?

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Correct Answer: A roof with a single slope and rafters spanning from one wall to the other.

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What does a sash hold?

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Correct Answer: The glazing

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What does "Rough-hewn" mean?

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Correct Answer: Lumber left exposed in construction that looks hand-cut and is heavily textured.

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What is the definition of a rosette?

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Correct Answer: A bas-relief ornament (sometimes painted) in the form of a stylized flower.

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What is the purpose of a quoin?

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Correct Answer: To accentuate an outside corner of a building

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What is post and beam construction?

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Correct Answer: A simple building framing system that uses a series of vertical posts and horizontal beams.

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What is a pier?

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Correct Answer: A masonry or wood pier that supports a building and carries the weight of it down to the ground.

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What is a Pediment?

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Correct Answer: The triangular gable end of a classical building, or the same form used elsewhere in the building.

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What is the purpose of a parapet?

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Correct Answer: The portion of wall that projects above the adjacent roof.

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What is Palladian architecture?

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Correct Answer: Neo-classical architecture in the style modeled after the Italian architect Andrea Palladio

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What is the definition of an Oriel window?

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Correct Answer: A bay window cantilevered out from a facade that starts above the ground level

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What is an ogee cap?

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Correct Answer: A molding with an S-shaped cross-section

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What is the definition of Neo-colonial?

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Correct Answer: Residences built after 1955 with allusions of the colonial revival architectural style.

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What is a motif?

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Correct Answer: A theme or predominant feature of a design.

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What does Mansard mean?

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Correct Answer: A two-pitched roof with a steep lower slope that typically rises to a more gently sloped upper portion.

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What is the Ionic order from Greek classical styles distinguished by?

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Correct Answer: The volutes used in the capital's design

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What is a hip roof?

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Correct Answer: A roof that slopes inward from all four exterior walls.

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What is a half-timbered building?

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Correct Answer: A building constructed with timber frame filled with plaster or brick.

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What is a gable?

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Correct Answer: The wall that encloses the end of a gable roof

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What is a frieze?

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Correct Answer: The flat, middle portion of an entablature (sometimes decorated).

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What does the word "facade" mean?

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Correct Answer: The exterior faces of a building

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What is the horizontal band of elements above the column capitals in classical architecture called?

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Correct Answer: Entablature

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What is an eaves?

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Correct Answer: The projecting overhang at the lower edge of a roof.

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What is a double-hung window?

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Correct Answer: A window with top and bottom sashes that slide past each other vertically.

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What is the capital design of the Doric order?

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Correct Answer: Simple yet powerful

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What is the definition of a Dependency?

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Correct Answer: A subsidiary building connected to the main building, often one of a symmetrical grouping.

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What is the purpose of a cupola?

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Correct Answer: To provide ventilation and serve as a "look-out"

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Cresting is a decorative element installed at which of the following locations?

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Correct Answer: Roof ridge or parapet

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What is a cornice?

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Correct Answer: The projecting moldings that form the top band of an entablature or wall.

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What is the most recent of the Greek classical orders?

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Correct Answer: Corinthian

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What is clapboard?

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Correct Answer: One of a series of boards used for siding

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What does circulation refer to?

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Correct Answer: The flow of people throughout a home or building.

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What is a chimney pot?

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Correct Answer: A decorative terra cotta chimney extension usually placed above a brick or stone chimney.

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What is a Chamfer?

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Correct Answer: A 45-degree bevel cut at an outside corner of a building element, often seen in wood, stone, or brick.

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What is a casement window?

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Correct Answer: A single window sash hinged on one side that swings open.

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What is a canopy?

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Correct Answer: A projecting roof structure that shelters an entrance.

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What is the name for applied ornamental elements often used at a cornice or to flank windows and doors?

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Correct Answer: Brackets

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What is a belt course?

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Correct Answer: A projecting horizontal molding separating parts of a wall surface in a facade.

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What is a balustrade?

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Correct Answer: A railing composition composed of upper and lower rails, balusters, and pedestals.

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What is a balconet?

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Correct Answer: A false balcony or railing at the outer plane of a window.

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What is the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings called?

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Correct Answer: Architecture

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