Question: What shape does the eastern end often exhibit in France?
Answer: polygonal

Question: What is the ring of chapels found in the eastern end of French chapels known as?
Answer: chevet

Question: In Italy, the eastern projection beyond the transept often contains what?
Answer: the sanctuary

Question: The use of the pointed arch for bringing transverse vaults to the same height diagonal ones, is in disagreement with what theory?
Answer: the diffusionist theory

Question: At which cathedral is the pointed arch used to match the heights of transverse and diagonal vaults?
Answer: Durham Cathedral

Question: In what type of decorative blind arcading are pointed arches common?
Answer: Romanesque

Question: When semicircular arches overlap each other, what type of design is accidentally created?
Answer: points

Question: Which type of vault can be used for rectangular and trapezoidal shaped roofs?
Answer: The Gothic vault

Question: What structural benefit is offered by the Gothic vault?
Answer: channels the weight onto the bearing piers or columns at a steep angle

Question: What can architects raise much higher using the Gothic versus the Romanesque variety?
Answer: vaults

Question: What type of visual character is achieved by using the pointed arch?
Answer: more vertical visual character

Question: What is one feature of both large and small Gothic churches?
Answer: towers

Question: What is another feature of both large and small Gothic churches?
Answer: spires

Question: How many towers are typical on the front of Gothic churches in France and Spain?
Answer: two towers

Question: In what country is the tower often found detached from the main building?
Answer: Italy

Question: How many towers are found at the Salisbury Chapel?
Answer: just one tower

Question: What enhances the vertical look of the exterior of Gothic construction? 
Answer: the towers and spires

Question: What is one design element of Gothic construction that is often terminated by small pinnacles?
Answer: The roofline

Question: What is another design element of Gothic construction that is often terminated by small pinnacles?
Answer: gable ends

Question: Which cathedral demonstrates a drastic example of termination with small pinnacles?
Answer: Milan Cathedral

Question: What other part of Gothic buildings are often found terminated with small pinnacles?
Answer: buttresses

Question: What is often found sweeping unbroken from floor to ceiling on the interior of Gothic buildings?
Answer: attached shafts

Question: Where are the verticals found repeated in the interior of Gothic buildings?
Answer: the treatment of the windows and wall surfaces

Question: What sort of feature is created by the use of vertical elements in gallery and window tracery?
Answer: a strongly unifying feature

Question: What does the use of vertical elements help to counteract?
Answer: horizontal divisions of the interior structure

Question: Who encouraged cathedral architects to allow as much light as possible into the building?
Answer: the Abbot Suger

Question: Who held the belief that all light, including light reflected from walls and surfaces was divine?
Answer: Pseudo-Dionysius

Question: What sort of light has always been characteristic of Gothic cathedrals?
Answer: Expansive interior light

Question: What book became popular with monks in France and had an effect on how light was used in cathedrals?
Answer: The Celestial Hierarchy

Question: Whose writings led to the clerical belief in the divinity of light?
Answer: Pseudo-Dionysius

Question: What size of window is found above the main portal at York Minster?
Answer: a large window

Question: What type of window is often found above the main portal at cathedrals in France such as the Reims Cathedral?
Answer: a rose window

Question: Where are rose windows never found in the facades of cathedrals?
Answer: any English Cathedrals

Question: What portion of Gothic buildings are usually richly decorated with arcading or sculpture?
Answer: The gable

Question: Which Italian cathedral displays polychrome marble and mosaic on the gable?
Answer: Orvieto Cathedral

Question: What is the distinguiushing visual design feature of French cathedrals?
Answer: their impression of verticality

Question: How many portals are typically found on the west front of French cathedrals?
Answer: three portals

Question: How many towers are typically found on the west front of French cathedrals?
Answer: two large towers

Question: What shape does the east end of French chapels typically have?
Answer: The east end is polygonal

Question: What do many major churches in Southern France often lack?
Answer: transepts

Question: What is the unique design feature of English cathedrals?
Answer: their extreme length

Question: What type of transepts do English cathedrals often feature? 
Answer: double transepts

Question: What size of window is typically featured on the west end of English cathedrals?
Answer: very large

Question: Where are rose windows used on English cathedrals?
Answer: the transept gables

Question: On English cathedrals, where is a tower almost always found?
Answer: at the crossing

Question: In Germany, Poland and Austria Romanesque architecture is defined by its massive size and what other design element?
Answer: modular nature

Question: What design style does Romanesque architecture in Germany, Poland, and Austria normally follow?
Answer: the French formula

Question: What does the eastern end of German Romanesque cathedrals typically emulate?
Answer: follows the French form

Question: What is the distinguishing design element in German Gothic cathedrals?
Answer: their breadth and openness

Question: What are hall churches in German cathedrals known as?
Answer: Hallenkirchen

Question: What is the distinctive design element of Gothic cathedrals of the Iberian Peninsula? 
Answer: their spatial complexity

Question: What size are the arcades of Gothic cathedrals of the Iberian Peninsula?
Answer: very tall arcades

Question: What type of architecture is a prominent influence on the design and form of Gothic cathedrals from the Iberian Peninsula? 
Answer: Islamic architecture

Question: What type of West front does the Leon Cathedral resemble?
Answer: a French west front

Question: What style are the spires at Burgos Cathedral?
Answer: German style

Question: What is the unique characteristic of Italian Gothic design?
Answer: the use of polychrome decoration

Question: What color are the columns of Italian Gothic cathedrals often painted?
Answer: the columns may be painted red

Question: What type of arches do they love to use in Venice?
Answer: they loved flamboyant arches

Question: Instead of rose windows, what type of windows do Italian cathedral facades usually feature?
Answer: occular or wheel windows

Question: What is the preferred narrative medium for the interior of Italian cathedrals?
Answer: the fresco

Question: Who was the Royal palace of Olite built for?
Answer: the kings of Navarre

Question: Who was the Malbork Castle built for?
Answer: the master of the Teutonic order

Question: What type of Gothic architecture is the Malbork Castle an example of?
Answer: Brick Gothic architecture

Question: What is the name of the royal residence built for the kings of France in Paris?
Answer: the famous Conciergerie

Question: When was the Palau de la Generalitat in Barcelona constructed?
Answer: built in the 15th century

Question: What is an example of secular Northern Brick Gothic architecture from the 14th century?
Answer: Stralsund town halls

Question: When was Brussels Town Hall built?
Answer: built during the 15th century

Question: What is the name of the secular building in Spain which was constructed for the purpose of silk exchange?
Answer: the Llotja de la Seda of Valencia

Question: What is the name of the 13th-century town hall constructed to host the offices of the republic of Siena?
Answer: the Palazzo Pubblico