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HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE inundation, interior face of the wall was

vertical.
EXIT EXAM a. fresco wall
(REVIEWER) b. relief wall
c. mosaic wall
1. One of a number of short vertical members, d. battered wall
often circular in section, used to support a
stair handrail or coping. 7. Unmoulded square slab forming the upper
a. baluster member of the capital
b. balustrade a. antefix
c. pilaster b. abacus
d. newel post c. acroterion
d. pedestal
2. Window projection from a house front,
circular, segmental or rectangular. 8. Typical characteristics of Romanesque
a. bay window buildings are:
b. oriel window a. dome, circular plan, and tile roof
c. dormer window b. thick walls, pointed arch and flying buttress
d. French window c. thick walls, round arches, groin vaults
d. stained glass, pointed arch, domical roof
3. Where embalming and interment is carried
out in Ancient Egypt practice. 9. Triangular space enclosed by the curve of
a. mastaba an arch, a vertical line from its springing and
b. pyramid a horizontal line through its apex.
c. valley building a. pendentive
d. obelisk b. keystone
c. spandrel
4. What roman structure was a fine example d. lantern
of structure built during the Roman empire
which gave importance to the sequencing of 10. Thought of as half-arches, these were built
different spaces opening off one another- to absorb this thrust and the transfer it to the
some spaces, vaulted, some domed, foundation below.
overwhelming the individually as in the big a. buttresses
space of the building and some smaller b. semi-arches
spaces-giving people varied sense of scale. c. pilaster arches
a. forum d. flying buttresses
b. Hagia Sophia
c. Thermae 11. These styles were the architectural styles
d. pantheon of the medieval period.
a. Romanesque and Gothic
5. What has contributed to the preservation of b. Greek and Roman
the ancient buildings of Egypt? c. Romanesque and Greek
a. the nile river d. Byzantine and Roman
b. the generally warm and dry climate
c. a strong sense of political responsibility 12. The stepped pyramid at Sakkara was built
d. their belief in the after life by Imhotep for which Egyptian royalty?
a. Snefru
6. Walls diminished course by course toward b. Snacku
the top due to the shrinkage caused by annual c. Zoser
d. Zerdab

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13. The scroll or spiral occurring in Ionic, 19. The fall of the Byzantine Empire marked
Corinthian and Composite Capitals the Muslim occupation in Turkey which
a. scroll influenced the architecture of Hagia Sophia as
b. cartouche seen in the
c. volute a. design of the roofs
d. ancone b. four minarets added
c. Colors painted on the structure
14. The recycling of Roman structure which d. paintings on the wall
was utilized as the worship area of the
Christians when they were given the freedom 20. The end of the one hundred years war and
to religion. between France and Great Britain marked the
a. prytaneion beginning of the
b. basilica a. Gothic Style
c. stoa b. Renaissance Style
d.forum c. Romanesque Style
d. Greek Style
15. The public hall or state dining room of the
greek city 21. The dome, vault, and arch were the
a. propylon technological discoveries of the
b. bouleuteron a. Greeks
c. stoa b. Romans
d. prytaneion c. Assyrians
d. Egyptians
16. The place where Githic style was born.
a. Ille de France 22. The crowning feature of a column or
b. Ille de Britania pilaster
c. Ille de Italia a. capital b. shaft c. base d. dado
d. Ille de Spana
23. The Byzantine Dome was constructed
17. The final renaissance phase when the using:
designers went back to ancient models. a. pendentives
Architectural character then became austere, b. pointed arch
following the reproduction of Greek c. trabeated construction
architecture of simplicity and imitation of d. double-shell construction
Gothic romantic approach.
a. Mannerism 24. The building which influenced all
b. Baroque Byzantine church architecture is the
c. Antiquarian a. Basilica of St. Peter’s
d. Rococo b. Parthenon
c. pantheon
18. The famous and tallest Art Deco d. church of Hagia Sophia
Skyscraper in New York?
a. World Trade Center 25. The body of the column or a pilaster
b. Rockefeller building a. capital b. shaft c. base d. dado
c. Chrysler building
d. Empire state building 26. The architectural style developed in the
early 15th century Italy during the rebirth
(rinescimento) of classical art and learning.
Initially characterized by the use of the

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classical orders, round arches, and c. valley building
symmetrical composition. d. mastaba
a. Renaissance
b. Gothic 49. Blocks resting on the vertex and lower
c. Romanesque extremities of the pediment to support statue
d. Roman or ornaments
a. acroterion
27. Term given to the treatment of the façade b. antefix
without columns c. abacus
a. stucco b. fresco c. rustication d. astylar d. pedestal
50. Angular courses of stone, etc. at the
28. System of decoration derived from corner of a building.
rockwork ornamentation a. chaines
a. cartouche b. quoins
b. rococo c. header
c. churrigueresque d. stretcher
d. Baroque
51. An ornamental tablet often inscribed or
29. Structural system using columns decorated, and framed with elaborate scroll-
extensively like carving; a modillion or curved form.
a. trabeated a. scroll
b. arcuated b. cartouche
c. columnar c. volute
d. arcaded d. ancone

30. Sculptural work on the walls where the 52. An ornament, sometimes painted, incised
objects are embossed or protruding from the or raised and formed of short fillets, bands, or
background reglets, variously combined, frequently
a. mosaic consisting of continuous lines arranged in
b.relief rectangular forms.
c. fresco a. trompe l’ oeil
d. battered b. fretwork
c. oeil de boeuf
31. Range of windows located on the upper d. strapwork
section of the church above the aisle
53. An international style of decoration and
47. Characterized by unconventional use of architecture of the late 19th century and early
classical elements, a phase that created a 20th centuries, characterized particularly by
valuable link between the Renaissance period the depiction of leaves and flowers in flowing,
and the emotional Baroque movement that sinuous lines.
followed in the 17th century. a. Post modernism
a. Mannerism b. art deco
B. Baroque c. art nouveau
c. Antiquarian d. international style
d. Rococo
54. An entire railing system (as along the edge
48. Burial place of the pharaoh square-based of a balcony) including a top rail and its
and pyramidal in shape. balusters, and sometimes a bottom rail.
a. pyramid a. baluster
b. obelisk b. balustrade

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c. pilaster b. eclecticism
d. newel post c. classicism
d. modernism
55. An ancient Egyptian, rectangular, flat
topped funerary mound with battered 62. A tall, slender structure that tapers to a
(sloping sides) covering a burial chamber point and rises from a roof or a tower.
below the ground a. finial b. turret c. spires d. lantern
a. mastaba
b. pyramid 63. A tall pillar of square section tapering
c. valley building upwards ending In a pyramid
d. obelisk a. pyramid
b. obelisk
56. A window in a sloping roof usually that of c. valley building
a sleeping apartment d. mastaba
a. bay window
b. oriel window 64. A style of architecture and decoration,
c. dormer window primarily French in origin, which represents
d. French window the final phase of the Baroque around the
middle of the 18th century characterized by
57. A window corbelled out from the wall of profuse, often semiabstract ornamentation
an upper storey. and lightness of color and weight.
a. bay window a. Baroque
b. oriel window b. Rococo
c. dormer window c. Mannerism
d. French window d. Antequarian

58. A vertical window which projects from a 65. A structure of wedge-shaped blocks over
sloping roof, placed in a small gable an opening, so disposed as to hold together
a. dormer window when supported only from the sides.
b. oriel window a. barrel vault
c. rose window b. dome
d. clearstory window c. arch
d. aqueduct
59. A vertical support consisting of a base,
shaft and a capital 66. a structural system using beams and
a. column b. dado c.pillar d. post columns extensively
a. trabeated
60. A type of ornament especially in English b. arcuated
Renaissance consisting of a narrow fillet or c. columnar
band which is folded crossed and interlaced. d. arcaded
a. trompe l’ oeil
b. fretwork 67. A structural concept and best contribution
c. oeil de boeuf of the Bauhaus school to architectural
d. strapwork modernism and construction wherein the
interior structure, not the wall, supports the
61. A term used to describe the combination building.
of elements from different historical styles, a. thin-shell concrete
chiefly in architecture and by implication, in b. glass-curtain wall
fine and decorative arts. c. folded plates
a. revivalism d. brise soleil

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68. a small tower, often projecting from the b. oriel window
corner of a wall or a building. c. rose window
a. finial b. turret c. spires d. lantern d. clearstory window

69. a round or oval figure or ornament of 75. A free-standing portico or detached


concentric bands, a characteristic feature of colonnade used for covered walk and meeting
French High Renaissance attic windows; place; used to enclose the space of a greek city
a. Trompe l’ oeil a. propylon
b. fretwork b. bouleuteron
c. oeil de boeuf c. prytanelon
d. strapwork d. stoa

70. A richly decorative of Spanish 76. A European style of architecture and


architecture of the 16th century; said to decoration in the 17th century. It is
resemble the intricate work of Spanish characterized by the use of oval/elongated
silversmiths in delicacy, hence its name. spaces, curved surfaces, and conspicuous use
a. plateresque of decoration, sculpture, and color.
b. churrigueresque A. Baroque
c. picturesque b. Rococo
d. arabesque c. Mannerism
d. Antequarian
71. a quadrangle opening in the atrium of the
Roman house, towards which the roof sloped 77. A decorative sytle stimulated by the Paris
so as to throw the rain water in a shallow Exposition International des Arts Decoratifs
cistern located beneath the floor. et Industrielles Moderness of 1925, widely
a. atrium used in the architecture of the 1930s,
b. compluvium including skyscraper designs such as Chrysler
c. impluvlum building in New York; characterized by sharp
d. cortile angular or zigzag surface forms and
ornaments.
72. a projecting member to support a weight a. post modernism
generally formed with scrolls or volutes b. art deco
which carry the upper member of the cornice; c. art nouveau
also called bracket or console or ancone. d. international style
a. modillion
b. fresco 78. A convex covering, usually hemispherical
c. pulpit or semi-elliptical over a circular or polygonal
d.trompe l’ oeil space.
a. barrel vault b.arch c. dome d. aqueduct
73. a pillared hall in which the roof rests on
columns; applied to many columned halls of 79. A continuous vault of semi-circular
Egyptian architecture. section
a. Hall of 100 columns a. aqueduct b. arch c. dome d. barrel vault
b. Valley Building hall
c. hypostyle hall 80. A colonnaded space forming an entrance
d. pylon or vestibule, with a roof supported on atleast
one side by column.
74. a large circular window with tracery a. impluvium
arranged like spokes of a wheel b. cortile
a. dormer window c. compluvlum

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d. portico
91. An archway with a multi-layered curving
test 2 roof.
a. torri b. pai lou c. homgsalmun d. gopuram
81. two storey Japanese pagoda style
a. ho to b. taho to c. tajo to d. taro-ro to 92. An archway that marks the approach to a
Japanese Shinto shrine
82. The water villages and longhouses are a. torri b. pailou c. paifan d. hongsalmun
vernacular houses in..
a. Nepal b. Malaysia c. china d. none of these 93. a towering pyramidal entrance building to
an Indian temple complex
83. The Japanese pagoda style with 3, 5, 7 or a. hongsalmun b. torana c. gopuram d.torri
more storeys (odd numbers)
a. ho to b. taho to c. tajo to d. taro-ro to 94. a temple where the Chinese emperor
prays to the gods for good harvest
84. The finishing material of the exterior wall a. temple of heaven
of taj mahal b. temple of sun
a. slate b. granite c. marble d. adobe c. temple of prayer
d. none of the above
85. the axis oriented towards mecca; in plan,
usually refers to the wall that terminates this 95. a specific style that describes the Islamic
axis. influence in Indian architecture
a. qibla b. mimbar c. sahn d. minaret a. mughai
b. mehrgara
86. One storey Japanese pagoda style c. Dravidian
a. ho to b. taho to c. tajo to d. taro-ro to d. byzantine

87. Islamic house of worship, general term for 96. a principle of design that best describes
a mosque the layout of a Chinese floorplan
a. masshad a. contrast b. hierarchy c. unity d. rhythm
b. masjid
c. mirhab 97. a multi-level structure that holds the relics
d. none of the above of a holy person;
a. pavilion b. pailou c. pagoda d. chorten
88. In a Japanese gateway, the horizontal rail
is called the kassagi” and slightly below the 98. a Korean archway
top rail is another horizontal rail called the a. torri b. pailou c. hongsalmun d. torana
a. nuki b. suki b.maki d.yaki
99. a gateway entry to an Indian (Buddhist)
89. Especially in the middle east, a building or sacred site.
inn for the overnight lodging of travelers by a. hongsalmun
caravan; usually entered through a large gate; b. torana
a. ribat c. gopuram
b. al motel d. none of these
c. caravanserai
d. selamlik 100. A 13 storey building the used to be the
chief residence of the Dalai Lama
90. An Indian burial mound surmounted by a a. potala palace
parasol b. jokhang
a. tumuli b. stupa c.pyramid d. ziggurat c. ramoche

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d. none of these b. Fernando Ocampo
c. Felix Roxas
test3 d. Arcadio Arellano
101. Who is the first registered architect in
the Philippines, whose greatest contribution 108. Which terms refer to American period
to the country is architecture education aside reinforced concrete and wood schoolhouses,
from stately buildings and construction design suited to the tropics featuring floor
a. Tomas Malaya levels raised above ground, high ceilings and
b. Tomas Mapua capiz shell windows
c. Tomas Adamson a. parsons style
d. Tomas Pinpin b. gabaldon style
c. baguio colonial style
102. Who is the designing architect of the d. burnham style
Manila City Hall?
a. Antonio Sindiong 109. Which of the following was not designed
b. Antonio Toledo by the national artist (1990) Leandro Locsin?
c. Antonio Luna a. National Arts Center, Laguna
d. Pablo Antonio b. Benedictine Monastery, Bukidnon
c. Coconut Palace in the CCP Complex
103. Who is the architect of the meralco d. cultural center of the Philippines
building in pasig?
a. William Coscolluella 110. Which of the following was not designed
b. Carlos Arguelles by the National Artist (1990) Leandro Locsin?
c. Manuel Manose a. Bangko Sentral Complex, Pasay
d. Jose Ma. Zaragosa b. Church of the Holy Sacrifice, UP
c. Mandarin Oriental, Makati
104. Architect of manila polo club in forbes d. Cultural center of the Philippines
park, Makati city
a. Jose ma. Zaragosa 111. Which of the following was not designed
b. Pablo Antonio by the National Artist (1990) Leandro Locsin?
c. Gabriel formoso a.NAIA Terminal 1
d . Jose Ma. Zaragosa b. official residence of sultan of Brunei
c. Alexandra Conduminiums, Pasig
105. Who is the architect of Iglesia ni Cristo d. Cultural Center of the Philippines
complex in Quezon city?
a. Carlos Sauco 112. Which of the following was not designed
b. Carlos Arguelles by Juan Arellano;
c. Carlos Celdran a. Manila city hall
d. Carlos Santos- Viola. b. Jones Bridge
c. Metropolitan theatre
106. Who designed the st. la salle building d. Manila Post office
(now de la salle university) in Manila?
a. Tomas Mapua 113. Which of the ff. buildings has a signature
b. Leandro Locsin of national artist Pablo Antonio?
c. Juan Arellano a. Metropolitan theatre
d. Fernando Ocampo b. National Arts Center, Laguna
c. Far Eastern University
107. Who designed the manila cathedral after d. SM Mall of Asia, Pasay
its destruction in world war ii?
a. Andres Luna de San Pedro

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114. Which style was said to be favored by the d. biga
American colonial authorities in the early 19th
century to mark their presence in the 120. Refers to the maranao traditional
Philippines? Clue: Taft Avenue was planned to dwelling built for the sultan or the datu.
be lined with building facades of this style. a. boat house
a. Neo-gothic b. sarimanok
b. Neo-classical c. torogan
c. Greek revival d. panolong
d. Egyptian revival
121. Local Filipino/ Tagalog term for gutter
115. What is the name of the Filipino architect a. Kilo mayor
who is the son of the world renowned Filipino b. alulod
painter Juan Luna, who trained and schooled c. espejo
in Paris in 1920. d. ladrillo
a. Antonio Luna de Samanillo
b. Jose Ma. Zaragosa y Luna 122. In the traditional Ifugao dwelling, the
c. Andres Luna de San Pedro halipan refers to
d. Leandro Locsin a. posts
b. rafters
116. What is the name of the American c. shelves
architect who did the plans for the city of d. ratguards
Manila?
a. William Taft 123. In Filipino architecture, which term
b. William parsons refers to a style of houses built partly of wood
c. Daniel Burnham and partly of stone?
d. George Dewey a. Arquitectura Mestiza
b. Casa Tesoro
117. The Santo Tomas de Villanueva church is c. Churiguerresque
one of the 4 Baroque churches in the d. Tsalet
Philippines marked by UNESCO as a World
Heritage Site. With what type of stone it was 124. In a Spanish colonial house, the term
built? used to refer to the transom window, either of
a. Luma stone colored glass paneling or pierced wood
b. adobe carving
c. yellow coral stone a. ventanilla
d. Flinstone b. persiana
c. barandilla
118. The highly sculptured end beams in the d. espejo
Maranao royal dwelling is called;
a. panolong 125. A flat open terrace on the upper floor
b. torogan leading to the toilet, kitchen and bath and
c. lamin serves as laundry;
d. gibbon a. comedor
b. caida
119. Term referring to the window sill of the c. azotea
Spanish colonial house on which the sliding d.patio
panels of the window glide through;
a. pasamano
b. volada
c. ventanilla

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