HOA AMACE SAMPLE TEST

NOT true of Early Christian Architecture?

Pagan worship was the basis for building religious structures.

NOT a Gothic architectural character in Belgium and the Netherlands?

Helms roof

Queen’s Palace at Persepolis

Harem

Egyptian temples were designed with inward inclinations called…

Battered walls

Oldest mosque in the Philippines

Simunul, Tawi-Tawi

Rows of columns supporting a roof

Colonnade

In traditional Japanese architecture, this is a security device designed to warn residents of the presence of intruders.

Nightingale floors

NOT a building by Andres Luna de San Pedro

Manila Post Office

Earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent.

Indus Valley

Part of Greek domestic architecture which was reserved for males to entertain male guests

Andron

Single, great upright stone whose function varies from astronomical, landmark, or memorial.

Menhir

Early shelters mainly served as storage for…?

Food

Setting for the Phantom of the Opera, mixture of Neo-Renaissance and neo-baroque

Garnier Opera House

T’boli ethnic house

Gunu Bong

Cradle of civilization

Mesopotamia

One of the seven wonders of the ancient world wherein plants grew on the roof and terraces and watered by a complex irrigation system.

Nebuchadnezzar’s Great Palace

A work of Jose Maria Zaragoza

Sto. Domingo Church, Q.C.

Graduates from Liceo de Manila

maestro de obras

UNESCO Heritage site used to be the capital of the Chimu Empire.

Chan Chan

Chinese dovetail brackets/joints that support the roof

Duogongs

NOT a national artist for architecture

Carlos Arguelles

Used to be called Cementerio General de Dilao

Paco Park

Open place of assembly and a center of social and business life

Agora

Renowned for its richly decorated staircase with frescoed ceilings, mirrors, and statues, this palace is regarded as the most beautiful Rococo building in the Prague.

Kinsky

More horizontal emphasis, by shrunken, largely ornamental bracket clusters and by a continued reliance on Song styles

Ming

NOT an example of pre-historic dwelling

Barrow

A royal symbol in Egyptian architecture that symbolizes life, death, and resurrection.

Scarab

Mayan architecture features this lattice of stone added despite the height

Roof comb

Chamber beneath an arena where bodies of dead gladiators are dragged and piled

Spoliarium

Rows of columns supporting a roof.

Colonnade

Egyptian temple built to celebrate the divine birth of Horus

Mammasi Temple

Most perfectly preserved ancient Roman temple

Pantheon

Cloisonne technique

Stones are framed with bricks

Earliest known site in South Asia showing evidence of farming and herding.

Mehrgarh

Children were sacrificed in an ancient Incan practice known as…

Capacocha

Theater expert whom Juan Arellano studied with in the US.

Thomas Lamb

Megale Ecclesia

Hagia Sophia

Egyptian temple used for the worship of gods.

Cult Temple

Most auspicious direction for Hindu temples

East

NOT the work of Antoni Gaudi

Casa Lucila

Part of a Greek Theater that represents the extended wing of the proscenium

Paraskenia

NOT a Maranao House

Ranggar

Earthen burial mound

Tumuli

NOT a work of Leandro Locsin

Manila Film Center

First “qualified” Philippine architect who designed the Sto. Domingo and San Ignacio Churches in Intramuros

Felix Roxas

A type of renaissance masonry treatment in which the blocks are laid in an ashlar pattern and articulated by exaggerated joints with roughened surfaces

Rustication

Colorful type of paraw used in Zamboanga & Sulu

Vinta

Which of the following functions is not attributable to the temple-pyramids of the Mesoamerican Region

Living Quarters