MASONRY LEVEL 1 COMPREHENSIVE 2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Low wall or railing. - ✔✔Parapet
✔✔Personal Protective Equipment - Equipment or clothing designed to prevent or
reduce injuries. - ✔✔PPE
✔✔Square or rectangular pillar projection from a wall. - ✔✔Pilaster
✔✔A row of mortar placed into a bed joints is called. - ✔✔Spread
✔✔Spreading mortar with a trowel on a wall or footing for a bed joint. - ✔✔Stringing
✔✔A wall that bears weight in addition to its own. - ✔✔Structural
✔✔Filling fresh mortar into cutout or defective joints in masonry. - ✔✔Tuckpointing
✔✔Brick that has no holes extending through it. - ✔✔Uncored
✔✔A small opening in mortar joints or faces to allow the escape of moisture. -
✔✔Weephole
✔✔A continuous section of masonry wall, one masonry unit in thickness, or that part of
a wall that is one masonry unit in thickness. - ✔✔Wythe
✔✔ concrete units are classified according to their _______. - ✔✔Intended use, size,
and appearance
✔✔The traditional number of brick in a cube is ________. - ✔✔500
✔✔Stone collected in a field is called ________. - ✔✔Rubble
✔✔Mortar that is typically used in contact with earth for foundations, sewers, and walks
is classified as a type _______. - ✔✔M
✔✔In a residential installation, the minimum air space between wythes in a composite
wall is a set at ________. - ✔✔1 inch
✔✔The type pf eye protection that provides the best protection from all directions is
_________. - ✔✔Safety goggles
✔✔adhesion means the ability of mortar to _____. - ✔✔Stick to a surface
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Low wall or railing. - ✔✔Parapet
✔✔Personal Protective Equipment - Equipment or clothing designed to prevent or
reduce injuries. - ✔✔PPE
✔✔Square or rectangular pillar projection from a wall. - ✔✔Pilaster
✔✔A row of mortar placed into a bed joints is called. - ✔✔Spread
✔✔Spreading mortar with a trowel on a wall or footing for a bed joint. - ✔✔Stringing
✔✔A wall that bears weight in addition to its own. - ✔✔Structural
✔✔Filling fresh mortar into cutout or defective joints in masonry. - ✔✔Tuckpointing
✔✔Brick that has no holes extending through it. - ✔✔Uncored
✔✔A small opening in mortar joints or faces to allow the escape of moisture. -
✔✔Weephole
✔✔A continuous section of masonry wall, one masonry unit in thickness, or that part of
a wall that is one masonry unit in thickness. - ✔✔Wythe
✔✔ concrete units are classified according to their _______. - ✔✔Intended use, size,
and appearance
✔✔The traditional number of brick in a cube is ________. - ✔✔500
✔✔Stone collected in a field is called ________. - ✔✔Rubble
✔✔Mortar that is typically used in contact with earth for foundations, sewers, and walks
is classified as a type _______. - ✔✔M
✔✔In a residential installation, the minimum air space between wythes in a composite
wall is a set at ________. - ✔✔1 inch
✔✔The type pf eye protection that provides the best protection from all directions is
_________. - ✔✔Safety goggles
✔✔adhesion means the ability of mortar to _____. - ✔✔Stick to a surface
