HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

EGYPTIAN & GREEK

Review Part 2
AR.EMMANUEL R. BADAGUAS, UAP
 EGYPTIAN
ARCHITECTURE
1. Abundant building material except on
temples & pyramids?

A. SUN DRIED BRICKS made up of clay & chopped stone for

pyramids & temples
B. STONE
C. SOFT STONE limestone, sandstone, alabaster

D. HARD STONE granite, quartzite, basalt porphyry

2. For roofing materials?

A. ACACIA For boat

B. SYCAMORE Mummy cases

C. DATE PALM
D. SUN DRIED BRICKS
3. Built because they believe in life after
death & for the preservation of the dead
body.
A. PYRAMID
B. TEMPLE
C. MASTABA
D. ROCK HEWN TOMB
4. Powerful, possessed of almost
unlimited authority and equipped with
all the learning of the age.

A. PHAROAH King of Egypt, ruler, highest priest in Egypt

B. VIZIER King’s most powerful official.

C. SON OF PHAROAH Normal successor to the throne.

D. PRIESTHOOD
5.Characteristic of Egyptian Architecture?

A. MONOTHEISTIC IN THEORY & POLYTHEISTIC

IN PRACTICE
B. SOBER & DIGNIFIED
C. PERFECTION OF PROPORTIONS
D. VASTNESS & MAGNIFICENCE
6. Mentions that they looked upon the
dwelling house as a mere temporary
lodging, the tomb being the permanent
abode.
A. AMUN-RAH
B. HEREDOTUS
C. RAMESES I
D. DJOSER
7. symbol of the sun, hope for eternal
life. AMUN-RA – chief god.

RAH – symbol of the sun, hope

for eternal life.

ATUM – world creator.

OSIRIS – god of the dead.

A. AMUN-RAH ISIS – wife of Osiris.

HORUS – sky god, also

B. OSIRIS reincarnation of “Ra” himself.

SET – dread god of evil, brother

C. ATUM of pleasure.

ANUBIS – jackal headed god of

death.
D. RAH PTAH – god of craftsmen.

SERAPIS – bull god.

8. Capital of Old Kingdom (1st to 10th
Dynasty)?

A. LOXUR
B. THEBES
C. CAIRO
D. MEMPHIS
9. First Pharaoh to order the
construction of a pyramid (Step
Pyramid).

A. SNEFERU
B. RAMESES I
C. THUTHMOSE I
D. DJOSER
10. Djoser’s vizier. Considered by some
to be the earliest known Architect.

A. SNEFERU
B. RAMESES I
C. IMHOTEP
D. DJOSER
11. Constructed the Bent Pyramid.

A. SNEFERU
B. RAMESES I
C. AMENOPHIS III
D. KHUFU
12. Seneferu’s son, the pharaoh who
built the Three Great Pyramids of Gizeh.

A. HATSHEPSUT
B. RAMESES I
C. AMENOPHIS III
D. KHUFU
13. Founder of the Middle Kingdom. He
also developed the 3rd type of tomb
rock–cut tomb.

A. HATSHEPSUT
B. MENTUHOTEP II
C. AMENOPHIS III
D. SENUSERET
14. Erected the earliest known obelisk.

A. HATSHEPSUT
B. AMENEMHET I
C. AMENOPHIS III
D. SENUSERET
15. Capital of NEW Kingdom (17th - 20th
Dynasty)?

A. LOXUR
B. THEBES
C. CAIRO
D. MEMPHIS
16. Initiated the foundation of Great
Temple of Ammon Karnak, grandest of
all temples.

A. HATSHEPSUT
B. AMENEMHET I
C. AMENOPHIS III
D. THUTMOSE IV
17. Began the additions to the Temple of
Ammon, Karnak.

A. THUTMOSE I
B. RAMESES I
C. AMENOPHIS III
D. THUTMOSE IV
18. Queen of Egypt, famous for her
funerary temple at Mount Der- El-Bahari.

A. NEFERTITI
B. ALEXANDRIA
C. AMENOPHIS III
D. HATSHEPSUT
19. The one responsible for the cleaning
away of sand from the Sphinx.

A. RAMESES I
B. RAMESES II
C. AMENOPHIS III
D. THUTMOSE IV
20. Erected the Colossi of Memnon, one
of the wonders of the world.

A. RAMESES I
B. RAMESES II
C. AMENOPHIS III
D. PTOLEMY II
21. Finished the construction of the Hypostyle
Hall, & erection of the Rock Temple at Abu-
Simbel, and the Remission, Thebes.

A. RAMESES I Began the construction of the Great

Hypostyle Hall, at Karnak
B. RAMESES II
C. AMENOPHIS III
D. PTOLEMY II
22. Built the Pharaohs or the Light House.

A. RAMESES I
B. RAMESES II
C. AMENOPHIS III
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
D. PTOLEMY II
23. Founded the Greatest Serapeum at
Alexandria.

A. RAMESES I
B. PTOLEMY III
C. AMENOPHIS III
D. PTOLEMY II
24. He controls the royal treasuries,
granaries, & supervises the census.

A. CHANCELLOR
B. VIZIER
C. CHIEF STEWARD In charge of the King’s personal
estate & household.
D. NOBLE FAMILIES
25. He controls the royal treasuries,
granaries, & supervises the census.

A. CHANCELLOR
B. VIZIER
C. CHIEF STEWARD In charge of the King’s personal
estate & household.
D. NOBLE FAMILIES
26. Inclination from base to top of the
facade.

A. BUTRESSESS
B. BATTERED WALL
C. MASTABA
D. POST & LINTEL
27. Were a formal writing system used by the
ancient Egyptians that combined logographic and
alphabetic elements. Egyptians used cursive
hieroglyphs for religious literature on papyrus and
wood.
A. CUNEIFORM
B. HEIROGLYPHICS
C. PETRAGLYPS
D. SGRAFFITO
28. Where offerings were placed. Its
walls are decorated with representations
of festal and other scenes.

A. SERDAB
B. OUTER CHAMBER
C. SHAFT WELL
D. STELE
29. This first Egyptian pyramid consisted of six
mastabas (of decreasing size) built atop one
another in what were clearly revisions and
developments of the original plan.

A. STEP PYRAMID
B. BENT PYRAMID
C. TRUE PYRAMID
D. PYRAMID OF GIZEH
30. Second pyramid built by Sneferu.

A. STEP PYRAMID
B. BENT PYRAMID
C. TRUE PYRAMID
D. PYRAMID OF GIZEH
31. Square in plan, its area is about 13
acres, twice the extent of St. Peter, Rome.

A. STEP PYRAMID
B. BENT PYRAMID
C. TRUE PYRAMID
D. PYRAMID OF GIZEH
SLOPED PYRAMID
32. Burial chamber that is cut into the
living rock usually along the side of a hill.

A. ROCK CUT TOMB

B. ROCK HEWN TOMB
C. BOTH A & B
D. NONE OF THE ABOVE
GREAT TEMPLE OF ABU SIMBEL
33. An Egyptian gateway.

A. ACROPOLIS
B. PYLON
C. TORANA
D. TORII
34. Large outer court open to the sky.

A. HYPOSTYLE HALL a pillared hall in which the roofs rest

on column.

B. ENTRANCE PYLON
C. HYPAETHRAL COURT
D. AVENUE OF SPHINX where mystical monster was placed.
35. Entrance forecourt leads to an
imposing façade formed by a pylon
carved with four Colossal seated statues.

A. GREAT TEMPLE OF AMON KARNAK

B. GREAT TEMPLE OF ABU SIMBEL
C. TEMPLE OF QUEEN HAPHEPSUT
D. TEMPLE OF ZEUS
36. These temples were not built upon one
complete plan but owe its size, disposition and
magnificence to the work of many Kings. Built from
the 12th Dynasty to the Ptolemaic period.

A. GREAT TEMPLE OF AMON KARNAK

B. GREAT TEMPLE OF ABU SIMBEL
C. TEMPLE OF QUEEN HAPHEPSUT
Grandest temple in Egyptian
D. TEMPLE OF ZEUS planning and was commenced by
Amenemhet I.
37. Representative of New Kingdom
funerary architecture, it both aggrandizes
the pharaoh and includes sanctuaries to
honor the gods relevant to her afterlife.
A. TEMPLE OF QUEEN NEFERTITI, LOXUR
B. TEMPLE OF ATHENA
C. TEMPLE OF QUEEN HAPHEPSUT
D. TEMPLE OF ALEXANDRIA
38. Are monumental pillars usually
in pairs at the temple entrances considered
the symbol of “Heliopolis” the sun god.

A. OBELISK
B. TRAJAN COLUMN
C. PILLAR OF VICTORY
D. REOSTRAL COLUMN
39. Egyptian ___ portrayed as a female. When it was,
its symbolized Isis and/or the reigning queen. In Egypt
the intellectual faculties ennobled the bestial traits
present in the physical makeup of this creature.

A. ANDROSPHINX a mystical monster with a body of a

lion and head of a man.

B. SPHINX
C. CRIOSPHINX body lion & head of a ram.

D. HEIROSPHINX body of a lion & head of a hawk.

40. The torusmold in Egyptian temples were
used to cover the angles.

A. EGG & DART

B. LOTUS & PAPYRUS
C. CAVETTO
D. GORGE & HOLLOW MOLDING
41. Identify.

A. BELL CAPITAL
B. HATHOR HEAD CAPITAL
C. LOTUS CAPITAL
D. BUD CAPITAL
42. Identify.

A. BELL CAPITAL
B. PALM CAPITAL
C. LOTUS CAPITAL
D. PAPYRUS CAPITAL
43. Identify.

A. BELL CAPITAL
B. PALM CAPITAL
C. LOTUS CAPITAL
D. BUD CAPITAL
43. Identify No. 5.

A. FLUTED COLUMN
B. BUNDLE COLUMN
C. LOTUS COLUMN
D. PALM COLUMN
44. Identify No. 18.

A. FLUTED COLUMN
B. HERALDIC COLUMN
C. HATHOR COLUMN
D. OSIRIS COLUMN
45. Identify No. 17.

A. FLUTED COLUMN
B. HERALDIC COLUMN
C. PALM COLUMN
D. BALDACHIN COLUMN
46. Identify No. 1.

A. OSIRIS
B. RAH, RE
C. ISIS
D. HORUS
47. Identify No. 17.

A. HATHOR
B. ANUBIS
C. KHNUM
D. THOTH
48. Identify C.

A. WINGED SUN DISC

B. EYE OF OSIRIS
C. EYE OF HORUS
D. SCARAB
49. Identify B.

A. WINGED SUN DISC

B. EYE OF OSIRIS
C. EYE OF HORUS
D. SCARAB
50. Identify T.

A. ANKH – KEY OF LIFE, KEY TO

THE NILE
B. URAEUS – GUARDIAN OF THE
KINGS
C. SETH, SET – STORMS, CHAOS,
EVIL
D. ATEN, ATON – SUNDISC
 GREEK
ARCHITECTURE
51. Chief building materials, they also
had ample supplies of building stones.

A. TRAVERTINE
B. MARBLE
C. GRANITE
D. CEMENT
52. Encompasses the visual art of the
ancient Cycladic civilization, which
flourished in the islands of the Aegean
Sea from 3300 - 2000 BCE.
A. AEGIAN ART
B. HELLENISTIC ART
C. CYACLADIC ART
D. MINOANS ART
53. Essentially columnar & trabeated in
Acropolis, which was crowned by Parthenon.

A. MINOANS PERIOD
B. MYCENEAN PERIOD
C. HELLENIC PERIOD Under Pericles (444 BC to 429 BC),
peak of Athenian prosperity.

D. HELLENISTIC PERIOD Philosophers- Socrates, Plato,

Aristotle.
54. Corresponds to the period between
the death of Alexander the Great in 323
BC and the annexation of the classical
Greek heartlands by Rome in 146 BC.
A. MINOANS PERIOD
B. MYCENEAN PERIOD
C. HELLENIC PERIOD
D. HELLENISTIC PERIOD
55. Largest city, had a magnificent
palace.

A. KNOSSOS
B. ATHENS
C. HERAKLION
D. PATRAS
56. What is the Characteristic of Greek
Architecture?

A. LOW PITCH OR FLAT ROOF

B. STAIRCASE WAS DEVELOPED FOR VERTICAL
CIRCULATION
C. HOUSES – MEGARON & PALACES
D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
57. What is the type of Greek walling surface
finished?

A. CYCLOPEAN
B. POLYGONAL
C. RECTANGULAR
D. RUBBLE
58. What is the type of Greek walling
surface finished?

A. CYCLOPEAN
B. POLYGONAL
C. ASHLAR
D. RUBBLE
59. What is the type of Greek walling
surface finished?

A. CYCLOPEAN
B. POLYGONAL
C. ASHLAR
D. RUBBLE
60. What is the characteristic of Greek
Architecture?

A. SOBER & DIGNIFIED

B. MASSIVE AND GRANDEUR
C. SIMPLICITY AND HARMONY
D. VASTNESS & MAGNIFICENCE
61. What is the characteristic of Greek
Architecture?
Simplicity & Harmony

Purity of Lines

A. SOBER & DIGNIFIED Perfection of Proportions

B. MASSIVE AND GRANDEUR Refinement of Details

C. SIMPLICITY AND HARMONY

D. VASTNESS & MAGNIFICENCE
62. Ceiling were omitted & treated with
timber paneled coffers.

A. PROPYLAEA Temples gateways

B. LACUNARIA
C. COLONNADE surrounds the temple.
is a technique of mural painting executed
D. FRESCO upon freshly laid lime plaster. Water is used
as the vehicle for the pigment and, with the
setting of the plaster; the painting becomes
an integral part of the wall
63. Most ancient stone sculpture in
Europe.

A. PALACE OF KNOSSOS
B. THOLOS OF ATREUS
C. TEMPLE OF ZEUS
D. GATE OF LIONS
64. Or sacred enclosure, also known as
citadel or acropolis or upper city.

A. THOLOS A stone vaulted construction, shaped like an

old fashion beehive.

B. TEMENOS
C. PINACOTHECA
D. AGORA Market. Civic Square, square city or market
place, the Greek’s political business &
economic life.
65. Principal chamber containing the
statue of the god or goddess, with
porticoes & colonnades.

A. PRONAOS the inner portico in front of naos, or cella of

the naos
B. EPINAOS the inner portico in front of naos, or cella of
the naos

C. NAOS
D. STOA is a term defining, in ancient Greek
architecture, covered walkways or porticos,
commonly for public usage.
66. How many columns have the
ENNEASTYLE? Henostyle
Distyle
(1) one column
(2) two columns

Tristyle (3) three columns

Tetrastyle (4) four columns

Pentastyle (5) five columns

A. 9 COLUMNS Hexastyle (6) six columns

B. 4 COLUMNS Heptastyle (7) seven columns

Octastyle (8) eight columns

C. 8 COLUMNS Enneastyle (9) nine columns

D. 10 COLUMNS Decastyle (10) ten columns

Dodecastyle (12) twelve columns

67. Characterized by a fluted column having
no base, plain cushion-shaped capital
supporting a square abacus and an
entablature consisting of a plain architrave.
A. CORINTHIAN
B. DORIC
C. IONIC
D. TUSCAN
68. Is an architectural ornament placed
on a flat base called the acroter or plinth
and mounted at the apex of the pediment
of a building.
A. ACROTERION
B. APOTHECA
C. ANTHEMION
D. ANTEFIXAE
69. The fluted column typically had molded bases
and supported an entablature consisting of an
architrave of three fascia, a richly ornamented frieze
and a cornice corbeled out on egg and dart and dentil
moldings.

A. CORINTHIAN
B. DORIC
C. IONIC
D. TUSCAN
70.Characterized especially by a deep bell-
shaped capital decorated by an acanthus
leaves and an abacus with concave sides.

A. CORINTHIAN
B. DORIC
C. IONIC
D. TUSCAN
71. Is credited with inventing the Corinthian
capital.

A. MNESICLES
B. PHEDIAS
C. CALLIMACHUS
D. ICTINUS
72. Temples that have one to four
columns between antae at the front
and rear. Two is the usual number.

A. IN ANTIS temples that have one to four columns

between antae at the front.
B. AMPHI-ANTIS
C. PROSTYLE temples that have a portico of columns at
front.

D. PERIPTERAL temples that have single line of columns

surrounding the naos.
73. Temples that have flanked of
columns. Attached to the naos wall.

A. DIPTERAL temples that have a double line of columns

surrounding the naos.
B. PSEUDO-DIPTERAL temples are like the last, but the inner range
of columns is omitted on the flanks of the
C. PSEUDO-PERIPTERAL naos.

D. PERIPTERAL
74. Is the spacing between columns in
a colonnade, as measured at the
bottom (diameter) of their shafts

A. INTERCOLONNATION
B. INTERCOLUMNATION
C. INTERCOLUMNIATION
D. INTERCOLONNADED
75. Doric, Peripteral, Octastyle.
Dedicated to the goddess Athena,
considered largest Greek Temple.

A. TEMPLE OF ZEUS OLYMPUS

B. TEMPLE OF BACCHUS
C. THE ERECHTHEION
D. THE PARTHENON
Architect: Ictinus & Callicrates
Master Sculptor: Phedias
76. Doric, Pseudo – Peripteral,
Heptastlye. Second largest Greek
temple. Used Atlantes, carved male
figure.
A. TEMPLE OF ZEUS OLYMPUS
B. TEMPLE OF BACCHUS
C. THE ERECHTHEION
D. THE PARTHENON
Architect: Theron
77. Male figure support in standing
position.

A. TELAMONES
B. ATLAS
C. CARYATIDS
D. CANEPHORAE
78. Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Peripteral,
Hexastyle. Architect: Ictinus.

A. TEMPLE OF APOLLO
EPICURIUS
B. TEMPLE OF BACCHUS
C. THE ERECHTHEION
D. TOWER OF THE WINDS
79. A type of monument erected to support a
Tripoid, as a prize for athletic exercises or
musical competitions in Greek. festival.

A. TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS
B. THE CHORAGIC
MONUMENT OF LYSICRATES
C. THE ERECHTHEION
D. TOWER OF THE WINDS
80. Considered to be the prototype of all
Greek theaters and accommodating almost
18,000 spectators.

A. THEATER OF THORIKO
B. THETAER OF EPIDAURUS
C. THEATER OF DIONYSUS
D. DELPI THEATER
81. Most beautiful and best-preserved Greek
Temple.

A. THEATER OF THORIKO
B. THETAER OF EPIDAURUS
C. THEATER OF DIONYSUS
D. DELPI THEATER
82. A senate house for the chief dignitaries of the
city.

A. STOA a long colonnaded building which serves to

connect public monuments and for shelter.
B. BOULEUTERION or council house, covered meeting place of
the democratically elected councils.
C. ODEION a theater building used mainly by musicians
in the presentation of their works for
D. PRYTANEION competition & for public approval.
83. Plan similar to stadium but longer,
for horse & chariot racing.

a place for physical exercise, both Palaestra

A. GYMNASIUM & Gymnasium were prototype of Roman
“Thermae”.
B. STADIUM / STADION foot race course and also used for other
athletic performances.
C. HIPPODROME
D. PALAESTRA (usually a court) wrestling school.
84. The flat square on top of a capital;
uppermost member of a capital.

A. ABACUS
the part of a building used by men
B. ANCON especially at the banquet room.

C. APOTHECA Storeroom, wine storage.

D. DENTILS a small square block used in series in lonic,

Corinthian, Composite and rarely in Doric
Cornices.
85. The long deep passage way to an
ancient Egyptian tomb.

A. VALLEY
B. KONISTRA
C. ENTASIS
D. DROMOS
86. A sculpture gallery.

A. APOTHECA
B. KONISTRA
C. GLYPTOTHECA
D. MODILLON
87. A chariot drawn by 3 horses.

A. TRIKE
B. TRIGAS
C. ENTASIS
D. MODILLON
88. A chariot drawn by 3 horses.

A. TRIKE
B. TRIGAS
C. ENTASIS
D. MODILLON
89. A shallow, concave grooves running
vertically on the shaft of a column,
pilaster or other surfaces.
A. PLINTH
B. DENTILS
C. FLUTING
D. ENTASIS
90. A small square block used in series
in lonic, Corinthian, Composite and rarely
in Doric Cornices.
A. PLINTH
B. DENTILS
C. FLUTING
D. ENTASIS
91. A circular projecting colonnade.

A. APOTHECA
B. SYSTYLE
C. CYLOSTYLE
D. PROSTYLE
92. Who is the Architect of MAUSOLEUM
OF HALICARNASSUS?

A. MNESICLES
B. PYTHIUS & SATYRUS
C. CALLIMACHUS
D. ICTINUS
93. Who is the Architect, under the time
of Alexander the Great?

A. MNESICLES
B. THERON
C. CALLIMACHUS
D. DEINOCRATES
94. Hellenistic Temple, Ionic, Dipteral, Octastyle.
One of the seven wonders of the ancient world,
Center of Pan – Ionic festival of the Asiatic Colonies.

A. TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS
B. TEMPLE OF ZEUS OLYMPUS
C. THE ERECHTHEION
D. TOWER OF THE WINDS
95. Octagonal structure, known as the
Horologium of Andronikos Cyrhestes, Clepsydra or
water clock internally, sundial externally.

A. TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS
B. TEMPLE OF ZEUS OLYMPUS
C. THE ERECHTHEION
D. TOWER OF THE WINDS
96. What is the spacing of PICNOSTYLE?

A. 1.5D
B. 2D
C. 3D
D. 2.25D
97. What is the spacing of AREOSTYLE?

A. 1.5D
B. 3D
C. 2.5D
D. 4D
98. IDENTIFY A. A
B
C
A. DENTILS D
B. FRIEZE
C. CORNICE E
D. ENTABLATURE F
99. IDENTIFY B. A
B
C
A. DENTILS D
B. FRIEZE
C. CORNICE E
D. ENTABLATURE F
100. IDENTIFY C. A
B
C
A. DENTILS D
B. SHAFT
C. CAPITAL E
D. ARCHITRAVE F
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