APAH Unit 7: West and Central Asia

Question 1

Which Buddha is bigger?

Accepted Answer

Vairocano (Universal Buddha)

Question 2

What is FALSE about Dome of the Rock?

Accepted Answer

It was influenced by axial plans

Question 3

What did the Great Temple at Petra NOT have?

Accepted Answer

A Mosque

Question 4

The Kaaba is covered in a silk cloth called the kiswa and is replaced every year for the pilgrimage

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

What purpose was Jowo Rinpoche given for?

Accepted Answer

A dowery

Question 6

What in the Folio from a Qur'an does NOT signify the owner of this particular Qur'an was rich?

Accepted Answer

Marking vowels with dots

Question 7

The Buddhas were carved out of the cliff. What other piece was created like this?

Accepted Answer

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Question 8

You could have walked up toward the top of the Buddhas using niches in the cliff

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

It was uncommon to keep expanding a Mosque like the Great Mosque of Isfahan did

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

The Court of Gayumars is an addition to the Book of Kings (Shahnama)

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

Who got the Great Mosque of Isfahan to 4 iwans?

Accepted Answer

Malik Shah I

Question 12

Which direction does one read Arabic?

Accepted Answer

right to left

Question 13

A prayer carpet, like the Ardabil Carpet, is a fundamental part of Islam art

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

What is FALSE about the Treasury at Petra?

Accepted Answer

It has Greek features like the doric columns

Question 15

What figure appears in Christianity, Judaism,and Islam and help build the Kaaba?

Accepted Answer

Abraham

Question 16

What is FALSE about The Court of Gayumars?

Accepted Answer

The court is talking to the demon Ahriman

Question 17

What is FALSE about the Ardabil Carpet?

Accepted Answer

The pattern resembles a dome with 16 squinches

Question 18

Why would Buddhas be carved in Bamiyan?

Accepted Answer

It was at the Western end of the Silk Road

Question 19

Both Buddhas still stand today

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

Who is thought to have blessed Jowo Rinpoche?

Accepted Answer

Buddha

Question 21

What is the Great Mosque of Isfahan known for?

Accepted Answer

The Iwans

Question 22

Which piece does NOT contain Arabic?

Accepted Answer

Jowo Rinpoche

Question 23

What did the nomadic Nabataen trade to obtain their wealth?

Accepted Answer

Incense

Question 24

Which is NOT a reason that Jowo Rinpoche would be placed in the Jokhang Temple in Tibet?

Accepted Answer

It was where the Jowo was born

Question 25

What type of art is Bahrum Gur Fights the Karg and The Court of Gayumars like?

Accepted Answer

Illuminated manuscripts

Question 26

Stupa means "a reliquary mound"

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

What book is Bahrum Gur fights the Karg from?

Accepted Answer

Book of the kings

Question 28

The Kaaba is the destination for the Hajj and is located in Mecca

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

What was the purpose of Basin?

Accepted Answer

To baptize members of the royal french family

Question 30

What is the significance of the rock in Dome of the Rock?

Accepted Answer

It is where Abraham tried to sacrifice Isaac

Question 31

What does the gold bar in the Folio from the Qur'an mean?

Accepted Answer

The beginning of a chapter

Question 32

What peoples made the Basin?

Accepted Answer

Mamluk hunters

Question 33

What people created the city of Petra?

Accepted Answer

Nabataen

Question 34

How many standing Buddhas were carved at Bamiyan?

Accepted Answer

2

Question 35

The Qibla Iwan is the smallest iwan at the Great Mosque of Isfahan

Accepted Answer

False

Question 36

What is the purpose of the Ardabil Carpet?

Accepted Answer

Prayer

Question 37

What culture inspired the look of Dome of the Rock?

Accepted Answer

Byzantine

Question 38

When Muslims circumvent the Kaaba the go in a clockwise direction 7 times

Accepted Answer

False

Question 39

What is FALSE about Bahrum Gur Fights the Karg?

Accepted Answer

Bahrum Gur is wearing European fabrics

Question 40

How do we know Muhammad ibn al-Zain made Basin?

Accepted Answer

He signed it 6 times

APAH Unit 7: West and Central Asia

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APAH Unit 7: West and Central Asia

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