1) Is the principal chamber of the Greek temple containing the statue of the god or goddess

C. Naos
2) Reason(s) why man seek shelter
D. All of the Above
3) Type of prehistoric structure aligned with the midwinter solstice sunset and associated with the
dead.
B. Salisburys Stonehenge
4) Considered as the life of Egypt where important religious structures like tomb pyramids and
temples were built strategically along it.
C. Nile River
5) First recorded Architect of the world, builder of the pyramid of Zoser.
A. Imhotep
6) A Persian architecture and was built by Darius
D. Hall of hundred Columns
7) The water-leaf & tongue ornament is found in?
A. Cyma Reversa
8) The proportion of the Ionic Column is?
D. 9D
9) Famous gateway to the new Babylon, decorated with blue glazed bricks.
A. Ishtar
10) Iraqi structures covered with split reed mats and built on a reed platform to prevent settlement.
B. Mud Hif
11) Romanesque means?
C. Roman-like art
12) One prominent feature of Romanesque churches is an element that may be square
B. Tower
13) The receding planes of the door jambs of Romanesque churches are often filled with?
D. Columns or orders
14) Walls of the Romanesque churches are relieved by shallow buttresses or pilaster strips, and
connected at the top by?
A. Corbel Arches
15) The outstanding example of a German Romanesque church that has an eastern and western
apse is?
C. Worm Cathedral
16) The term gothic was coined by?
A. Vasari
17) The ornamental patternwork in stone filling the upper part of a Gothic window?
C. Tracery
18) In the Gothic Wall Section the blind-story is also called?
A. Triforium
19) Forerunner of the Gothic in France was?
B. Villard de Hannecourt
20) Pattern produced by the lieme ribs in a Gothic Vault
A. Stellar Vault
21) Established a religion in the 6
th
century BCE centered on the idea of non-injury to all living things
A. Mahavira
22) The Dalada Maligawa houses relics form
C. Siddhartha Gautama
23) The First capital of Sinhala
D. Anuradhapura
24) Temples with interior processional routes were first built in this city
C. Kandy
25) Built by King Kassapa I on and around a large rock
A. Sigiraya
26) The ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement of space to achieve harmony with
the environment
B. Feng shui
27) The red fort in agra, India
A. Mughal
28) Believed that universal love is the solution to social disorder
D. Lao Tze
29) Stressed the importance of family and ancestral worship
B. Kung Fu Tzu
30) The Taj Mahal in memory of his wife
A. Shah Jehan
31) Japanes tea houses
A. Chas-hitsu
32) Angkor Wat, Angkor, Cambodia
D. All of the above
33) Angkor Thom, Angkor, Cambodia
D. Both A and B.
34) Borobudur, Indonesia
B. The plan was based in a mandala design
35) A Hindu and Buddhist mythical creature, which is half-bird, half-man, and serves as guardians of
the temples, Thailand and Indonesia use it as their national symbol?
A. Garuda
36) Secondary windows beneath the main windows;
C. Ventanillas
37) Wooden balusters
A. Barandillas
38) Wooden Jalousies:
D. Persianas
39) Tracery found on the upper part of the interior partitions to aid in ventilation:
B. Calado
40) An are used mainly for storage, typically for carriages and/or religious parade floats:
C. Zagum or Zaguan
41) Developed a comprehensive guide in 1573 comprising 48 ordinances in aid to colonists in
locating, building, and populating settlements.
C. King Philip II
42) Intramuros is known as
D. All of the above
43) Pre-colonial architecture in the Philippines is also known as
D. All of the above
44) Known for their literary traditions of the hudhud and the alim.
A. Ifugao
45) This house is found in Batanes, known to have a roof system built up of 6 layers of oogon, walls
made of very thick stone and lime masonry walls.
C. Ivatan house
46) The best example of the Roman Architecture.
C. Colosseum
47) The Byzantine church in Russia with eight bulblike domes, each different and all painted in the
most brilliant colours.
A. St. Basil
48) An ________(Inuktitut iglu, house), translated sometimes as snowhouse, is a shelter
constructed from blocks of snow, generally in the form of a dome.
C. Igloo
49) The freat cities of Cuzco and Machu Picchu and the imposing fortresses of Sacsahuaman and
Ollantaytambo are typical examples of the ________ skill.
C. Inca
50) These proponents of _________ sought to reestablish the files between beautiful work and the
worker, returning to an honesty in design not to be found on mass-produced items in Britain and
Americas.
D. Arts and crafts movement
51) A type of design which deals with the development of a plan arrangement to serve in a purely
mechanical way the function of the building is.
D. functional design
52) A mechanical device for vertical access.
D. elevator
53) A form cannot be articulated by:
B. Developing the interior walls as simple vertical component.
54) Modular forms whose relationships are regulated by three-dimensional grids:
C. grid forms
55) A line that symbolizes excitement and jagged animation is:
B. zigzag

56) This is an element of architecture that allows movement of light and air
A. circulatory
57) Utilitas, firmitas, venustas.
B. Vitruvius
58) Pioneer of Philippine Architecture
A. Juan Nakpil
59) The Crystal Palace in London was designed by
C. Joseph Paxton
60) Architecture that sympathizes with its environment.
A. ecoism
61) Skin and Bone construction
D. None of the above
62) It is usually applied to any building that incorporates a mixture of historical styles.
B. Eclecticism
63) Euclidian Space
B. three dimensional geometry
64) Under signs and symbols in architecture, it refers to an object or phenomenon which has
meaning that evokes emotional reaction.
No answer
65) Concepts are necessary because it is important to __________ what that environment will look
like and mean at the outset of the job.
A. Articulate

II. True or False.
66) The large structures during the pre-historic era were mainly built because of a strong religious
belief and relationship in God.
B. False
67) Sides of the Egyptian structures were oriented toward the cardinal points.
A. True
68) Prehistoric stone structures such as the Stonehenge were used as venues for important events
such as the solstice and equinox dates.
A. True
69) Pyramids are often flanked at the main entrance with a pair of obelisks.
A. True
70) The three great pyramids of Egypt are Menkaure, Khufu, and Khafre, of which Khafre is the
tallest.
B. False
71) The term Gothic was initially a stylistic insult that meant barbaric or uncivilized.
A. True
72) Characteristic Gothic features include the rounded arch, the groin and the buttress.
B. False

73) Abbot Suger wanted to create a vision of heaven in the Abbey Church of St. Denis.
A. True
74) Stained glass added a dimension of color to the light within the building, as well as provided a
medium for figurative and narrative art.
A. True
75) While structurally the pointed arch gave a greater flexibility to architectural form, it also gave
Gothic architecture a very different visual character to Romanesque, the verticality suggesting an
aspiration to Heaven.
B. False?
76) Northern Hindu temples feature square of cruciform plans.
A. True
77) Buddhisms ultimate goal is the attainment of nirvana.
A. True
78) Buddhist architecture adheres to highly symbolic design programs based on the cosmos and the
teachings of Buddha.
A. True
79) Four mandalas surround the Stupa at Sanchi.
B. False
80) Although Jains lead very austere lives, their temples are some of the richest in the world in
terms of grandeur and material wealth.
A. True
81) A traditional Thai house is usually built as a cluster of physically separate rooms arranged around
a large central terrace.
A. True
82) A Thai bot or ubosoth is surrounded by eight ceremonial gateways.
B. False
83) Only monks are allowed to enter the vilham in a Thai temple.
B. False
84) Traditional Chinese architecture is represented by symmetry and balance.
A. True
85) The rural metropolis of Angkor grew sporadically without any formal planning.
No answer
86) Bayon Temple features numerous towers each with giant faces on all four sides
A. True
87) The earliest evidence of habitation in the archipelago can be found in the Tabon Caves in Sulu.
B. False
88) Lean-to dwellings were ised by Negritos.
A. True
89) In pre-colonial times, the barangay was a political society just as it is today.
A. True

90) The Laguna Copperplate inscription is proof that there had already been diverse peoples living in
and around the area of Manila long before the arrival of the Spaniards.
A. True
91) Gabled, hipped, or pyramidal are all roof configurations of a traditional bahay kubo.
A. True
92) A moulding that translates has an outward or downward direction in its contours.
A. True
93) A pictorial ornament tells a story.
A. True
94) A naturalistic ornament consists of the simplification of the design and its reduction to a basic
structural pattern.
B. False
95) The four vertical surfaces of a wall are components of an architectural volume.
A. True
96) Provisions of natural and artificial lighting are conditioning processes for comfort.
No answer
97) In developing a set of basic principles for the production of a living architecture, the designer
should think of space within a space, and not of solids in space.
A. True
98) The Congres Internationaux dArchitecture Moderne was set up by Le Corbusier & Siegried
Gledion.
A. True
99) Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered Organicism (Organic Architecture) style.
A. True
100) Low-cost housing was referred to as utilitarian architecture.
No answer