NYSTCE CST 245 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔annealing - ✔✔softening by heating glass or metal that has become hardened
✔✔Arebesque - ✔✔Very intricate designs based on plant forms.
✔✔atrium - ✔✔open rectangular court in the front of a church
✔✔baluster - ✔✔a small curved post or pillar
✔✔batten - ✔✔strips of wood used as a base for plastering or for attaching tile
✔✔bevel - ✔✔to round off a sharp edge
✔✔biscuit - ✔✔unglazed porcelain
✔✔bust - ✔✔a sculpture depicting a head, neck, and upper chest of a figure
✔✔casement - ✔✔a window that opens on hinges along its side
✔✔Chancel - ✔✔The portion of the church surrounding the altar, usually enclosing the
clergy; area behind the altar or communion rail.
✔✔decoupage - ✔✔Cutting out designs to be used in a collage.
✔✔niche - ✔✔a wall recess
✔✔obelisk - ✔✔A tall, four-sided pillar that is pointed on top
✔✔parquet - ✔✔floor made of wood strips inlaid in a mosaic like matter; CF. strip: long
narrow piece
✔✔sarcophagus - ✔✔stone coffin
✔✔sizing - ✔✔gluelike material used to stiffen paper or to seal a wall or canvas
✔✔tempera - ✔✔a type of painting that binds the pigment with a mixture of egg and
water or egg and oil
✔✔vihara - ✔✔Buddhist monastery
✔✔Monarchy - ✔✔A government ruled by a king or queen
, ✔✔republic - ✔✔rule by law
✔✔Theocracy - ✔✔A government controlled by religious leaders
✔✔Bill of Rights, 1791 - ✔✔The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten
amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed to assuage the fears of Anti-
Federalists (personal Liberty)
✔✔First Admendment - ✔✔freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the
press, right of assembly, right to petition
✔✔Fourth Admendment - ✔✔this admendment stats that there shall be no
unreasonable searches and/or seizures. One must get a search warrent to look through
one's property
✔✔Fifth Amendment - ✔✔A constitutional amendment designed to protect the rights of
persons accused of crimes, including protection against double jeopardy, self-
incrimination, and punishment without due process of law.
✔✔Indian Removal Act - ✔✔Passed in 1830, authorized Andrew Jackson to negotiate
land-exchange treaties with tribes living east of the Mississippi. The treaties enacted
under this act's provisions paved the way for the reluctant—and often forcible—
emigration of tens of thousands of American Indians to the West.
✔✔Trail of Tears - ✔✔The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They
traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois,
Missouri, and Arkansas-more than 800 miles (1,287 km)-to the Indian Territory. More
than 4, 00 Cherokees died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day
journey.
✔✔Civil War (1861-1865) - ✔✔deadliest war in American history; conflict between north
(union) and south (confederacy); 11 southern slave states wanted to secede from Union
✔✔Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) - ✔✔Supreme Court decision that overturned
the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision (1896); led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Court
ruled that "separate but equal" schools for blacks were inherently unequal and thus
unconstitutional. The decision energized the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and
1960s.
✔✔Founding Fathers - ✔✔representatives from each of the 13 colonies who decided to
meet and write a document stating their reasons for separation and independence from
England
✔✔ Seasonal changes - ✔✔moon orbits earth once per month
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔annealing - ✔✔softening by heating glass or metal that has become hardened
✔✔Arebesque - ✔✔Very intricate designs based on plant forms.
✔✔atrium - ✔✔open rectangular court in the front of a church
✔✔baluster - ✔✔a small curved post or pillar
✔✔batten - ✔✔strips of wood used as a base for plastering or for attaching tile
✔✔bevel - ✔✔to round off a sharp edge
✔✔biscuit - ✔✔unglazed porcelain
✔✔bust - ✔✔a sculpture depicting a head, neck, and upper chest of a figure
✔✔casement - ✔✔a window that opens on hinges along its side
✔✔Chancel - ✔✔The portion of the church surrounding the altar, usually enclosing the
clergy; area behind the altar or communion rail.
✔✔decoupage - ✔✔Cutting out designs to be used in a collage.
✔✔niche - ✔✔a wall recess
✔✔obelisk - ✔✔A tall, four-sided pillar that is pointed on top
✔✔parquet - ✔✔floor made of wood strips inlaid in a mosaic like matter; CF. strip: long
narrow piece
✔✔sarcophagus - ✔✔stone coffin
✔✔sizing - ✔✔gluelike material used to stiffen paper or to seal a wall or canvas
✔✔tempera - ✔✔a type of painting that binds the pigment with a mixture of egg and
water or egg and oil
✔✔vihara - ✔✔Buddhist monastery
✔✔Monarchy - ✔✔A government ruled by a king or queen
, ✔✔republic - ✔✔rule by law
✔✔Theocracy - ✔✔A government controlled by religious leaders
✔✔Bill of Rights, 1791 - ✔✔The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten
amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed to assuage the fears of Anti-
Federalists (personal Liberty)
✔✔First Admendment - ✔✔freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the
press, right of assembly, right to petition
✔✔Fourth Admendment - ✔✔this admendment stats that there shall be no
unreasonable searches and/or seizures. One must get a search warrent to look through
one's property
✔✔Fifth Amendment - ✔✔A constitutional amendment designed to protect the rights of
persons accused of crimes, including protection against double jeopardy, self-
incrimination, and punishment without due process of law.
✔✔Indian Removal Act - ✔✔Passed in 1830, authorized Andrew Jackson to negotiate
land-exchange treaties with tribes living east of the Mississippi. The treaties enacted
under this act's provisions paved the way for the reluctant—and often forcible—
emigration of tens of thousands of American Indians to the West.
✔✔Trail of Tears - ✔✔The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They
traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois,
Missouri, and Arkansas-more than 800 miles (1,287 km)-to the Indian Territory. More
than 4, 00 Cherokees died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day
journey.
✔✔Civil War (1861-1865) - ✔✔deadliest war in American history; conflict between north
(union) and south (confederacy); 11 southern slave states wanted to secede from Union
✔✔Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) - ✔✔Supreme Court decision that overturned
the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision (1896); led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Court
ruled that "separate but equal" schools for blacks were inherently unequal and thus
unconstitutional. The decision energized the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and
1960s.
✔✔Founding Fathers - ✔✔representatives from each of the 13 colonies who decided to
meet and write a document stating their reasons for separation and independence from
England
✔✔ Seasonal changes - ✔✔moon orbits earth once per month
