APAH 1st semester architecture review

Question 1

Every Greek polis had a fortified hillside temple called a _________________________.

Accepted Answer

Acropolis

Question 2

The Great Pyramids are part of a necropolis complex, meaning literally ___________-.

Accepted Answer

city of the dead

Question 3

This is the pylon, or front facade, of the ____________.

Accepted Answer

Temple of Amun Re

Question 4

The Great Mosque at Cordoba is an example of a ______________ mosque.

Accepted Answer

hypostyle

Question 5

This style of audience hall is called a ____________________________.

Accepted Answer

Apandana

Question 6

This is the portico of the ______________.

Accepted Answer

Pantheon

Question 7

The raised stepped platforms that Mesopotamian temples were built upon where called _________-.

Accepted Answer

Ziggurats

Question 8

These sculptures used to fill the west __________ of the Parthenon

Accepted Answer

pediment

Question 9

A Peripteral temple, with a front facade of a single row of columns, is characteristic of who?

Accepted Answer

The Greeks

Question 10

These winged beasts, called _______, stood guard at the entrance of Assyrian palaces.

Accepted Answer

Lamassu

Question 11

These early Egyptian Mastaba tombs eventually evolved into the funerary practice of __________.

Accepted Answer

Pyramids

Question 12

This is the great _______, half man/half lion, featured during a Grateful Dead concert.

Accepted Answer

Sphinx

Question 13

This is the propylaea, or entrance way, to the _________________.

Accepted Answer

Parthenon

Question 14

A long series of repeating columns is called a _____________.

Accepted Answer

colonnade

Question 15

What function did the piece below serve?

Accepted Answer

mortuary temple to worship a dead pharoah

Question 16

This is a ______________ style mosque

Accepted Answer

Iwan

Question 17

The ____________ is the acropolis in Athens.

Accepted Answer

Parthenon

Question 18

The Cella was ________________.

Accepted Answer

inner chamber of a temple

Question 19

What function did this apandana serve?

Accepted Answer

all answers are correct

Question 20

The capital of this column is in the shape of a ______, a common Egyptian motif.

Accepted Answer

water lilly

Question 21

A hall with a roof supported by columns is called a _____________.

Accepted Answer

hypostyle hall

Question 22

This architectural feature is called a ___________________-.

Accepted Answer

Barrel Vault

Question 23

Which culture invented and was characterized by the use of the barrel vault?

Accepted Answer

The Romans

Question 24

This ___________ from the Parthenon shows the ___________

Accepted Answer

Frieze, Panathenaic Procession

APAH 1st semester architecture review

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APAH 1st semester architecture review

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