ARCH 249- Exam 1 Review-Questions
And Answers.
Chapter 1: The Beginnings of Architecture - Answer Egypt, Mesopotamia and early civilization
What was the focus of Bernard Rudofsky's "Architecture without Architects" exhibition? -
Answer Chronologically and geographically inclusive study of the built environment
The most dramatic images from prehistoric times that were found in France and Spain are the
___________? - Answer The paleolithic cave paintings
The extremely influential exhibition organized by Bernard Rudofsky at the Museum of Modern
Art in New York City was _________? - Answer Architecture without Architects
What was true about the Sumerians? - Answer 1. They are credited with forming the world's
first civilization
2. They mastered arts of agriculture and developed irrigation systems
What do the following Egyptian terms for afterlife elements mean? Ka, Ba, Akh - Answer Ka-
life force
Ba- physical manifestation
Akh- spirit
What were the pylon gates constructed in New-Kingdom temples? - Answer They were the
gates to the underworld through which the eternal spirit must pass
They were the entrances through which the sun was reborn every day
What was a difference between Jericho and Catal Huyuk? - Answer Jericho- fortified
settlement with a stone wall
Catal Huyuk- unfortified settlement with no streets
Who added an outer layer to the pyramid that may have been for Huni, the last pharaoh of the
Third Dynasty? - Answer Sneferu
What regions are considered the cradles of Western history and architecture? - Answer Egypt
and Mesopotamia
, The largest roofed space in the palace at Persepolis that was able to contain 10,000 people
within its 250-footsquare plan was the - Answer Hall of a Hundred Columns
What did the palace at Assyrian King Sargon II's royal city of Khorsabad in Mesopotamia have? -
Answer It was orthogonally organized around multiple courts
It was embedded in the city's massive surrounding wall, which was reinforced by repetitive
towers
What was discovered at sites in the central Russian Plain, dated to about 14,000 BCE? - Answer
Huts constructed of mammoth bones
What is true of Sneferu's construction of the "bent" pyramid at Dahshur? - Answer It gains
added stability from its reduced angle of inclination
It was changed to lower inclination angle when it was half-built
What are the phases of the construction of Stonehenge with their respective additions to the
structure? - Answer 1st phase- 56 evenly spaced holes were dug and filled with chalk
2nd phase-
3rd phase- 35 lintels and forty sarcen stones weighing up to 20 tons each were erected
In about 3000 BCE, perhaps as a result of contacts with Mesopotamia, another center of
civilization emerged in _____? - Answer Egypt
What is something true about the temple at Eridu at Sumeria? - Answer Its buttressed walls
enclosed a rectangular shrine room flanked by smaller side chambers
What did the chambers in Khufu's pyramid represent? - Answer Lower- it is thought to
represent the underworld
Middle- it served as Khufu's spirit chamber
Upper- it contains a granite sarcophagus in which Khufu was buried
At Assyrian King Sargon II's royal city of _______ in Mesopotamia, architects employed both
architecture and art to communicate the awe-inspiring power of their ruler. - Answer
Khorsabad
What is true of pharaoh Amenophis IV? - Answer He instituted a monotheistic religion
devoted to the sun disc Aten
He disavowed the multitudes of deities
And Answers.
Chapter 1: The Beginnings of Architecture - Answer Egypt, Mesopotamia and early civilization
What was the focus of Bernard Rudofsky's "Architecture without Architects" exhibition? -
Answer Chronologically and geographically inclusive study of the built environment
The most dramatic images from prehistoric times that were found in France and Spain are the
___________? - Answer The paleolithic cave paintings
The extremely influential exhibition organized by Bernard Rudofsky at the Museum of Modern
Art in New York City was _________? - Answer Architecture without Architects
What was true about the Sumerians? - Answer 1. They are credited with forming the world's
first civilization
2. They mastered arts of agriculture and developed irrigation systems
What do the following Egyptian terms for afterlife elements mean? Ka, Ba, Akh - Answer Ka-
life force
Ba- physical manifestation
Akh- spirit
What were the pylon gates constructed in New-Kingdom temples? - Answer They were the
gates to the underworld through which the eternal spirit must pass
They were the entrances through which the sun was reborn every day
What was a difference between Jericho and Catal Huyuk? - Answer Jericho- fortified
settlement with a stone wall
Catal Huyuk- unfortified settlement with no streets
Who added an outer layer to the pyramid that may have been for Huni, the last pharaoh of the
Third Dynasty? - Answer Sneferu
What regions are considered the cradles of Western history and architecture? - Answer Egypt
and Mesopotamia
, The largest roofed space in the palace at Persepolis that was able to contain 10,000 people
within its 250-footsquare plan was the - Answer Hall of a Hundred Columns
What did the palace at Assyrian King Sargon II's royal city of Khorsabad in Mesopotamia have? -
Answer It was orthogonally organized around multiple courts
It was embedded in the city's massive surrounding wall, which was reinforced by repetitive
towers
What was discovered at sites in the central Russian Plain, dated to about 14,000 BCE? - Answer
Huts constructed of mammoth bones
What is true of Sneferu's construction of the "bent" pyramid at Dahshur? - Answer It gains
added stability from its reduced angle of inclination
It was changed to lower inclination angle when it was half-built
What are the phases of the construction of Stonehenge with their respective additions to the
structure? - Answer 1st phase- 56 evenly spaced holes were dug and filled with chalk
2nd phase-
3rd phase- 35 lintels and forty sarcen stones weighing up to 20 tons each were erected
In about 3000 BCE, perhaps as a result of contacts with Mesopotamia, another center of
civilization emerged in _____? - Answer Egypt
What is something true about the temple at Eridu at Sumeria? - Answer Its buttressed walls
enclosed a rectangular shrine room flanked by smaller side chambers
What did the chambers in Khufu's pyramid represent? - Answer Lower- it is thought to
represent the underworld
Middle- it served as Khufu's spirit chamber
Upper- it contains a granite sarcophagus in which Khufu was buried
At Assyrian King Sargon II's royal city of _______ in Mesopotamia, architects employed both
architecture and art to communicate the awe-inspiring power of their ruler. - Answer
Khorsabad
What is true of pharaoh Amenophis IV? - Answer He instituted a monotheistic religion
devoted to the sun disc Aten
He disavowed the multitudes of deities
