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Verbal Assignment 1: Unit 2 - Week 1

This document is a quiz for an online course on the history of architecture in India. It contains 10 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of early Indian architecture, including temples, Buddhist structures, and the Indus Valley Civilization. The quiz asks about temple superstructures, monolithic temples, early cave architecture, Buddhist architecture before 400 BCE, the earliest free-standing temple, characteristics of Hindu temples and Buddhist viharas, and influences on Mauryan Ashokan columns.

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Verbal Assignment 1: Unit 2 - Week 1

This document is a quiz for an online course on the history of architecture in India. It contains 10 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of early Indian architecture, including temples, Buddhist structures, and the Indus Valley Civilization. The quiz asks about temple superstructures, monolithic temples, early cave architecture, Buddhist architecture before 400 BCE, the earliest free-standing temple, characteristics of Hindu temples and Buddhist viharas, and influences on Mauryan Ashokan columns.

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02/07/2020 Introduction to History of Architecture in India - - Unit 2 - Week 1

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Unit 2 - Week 1

Course
outline Verbal Assignment 1
How does an The due date for submitting this assignment has passed. Due on 2020-02-12, 23:59 IST.
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course work?
1) The two main types of temple superstructures are: 1 point
Week 1
Latina and kutina
Early Kutina and Vesara
Architecture
Latina and Bhumija
(unit?
unit=1&lesson=5) Kalinga and Kutina

Buddhist and No, the answer is incorrect.


Score: 0
Early Temple
Architecture
Accepted Answers:
(unit?
Latina and kutina
unit=1&lesson=6)
2) The following temple is not monolithic: 1 point
Sacrificial Altars
and Divine Kailas temple at Ellora
Shelters (unit? Arjuna ratha at Mammalapuram
unit=1&lesson=7)
Shore temple at Mammalapuram
The Great Cave 5 at Elephanta
Temple (unit?
unit=1&lesson=8) No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Week - 01 Accepted Answers:
Review (unit? Shore temple at Mammalapuram
unit=1&lesson=9)
3) The earliest excavated cave architecture in India dates to: 1 point
Quiz : Verbal
Assignment 1 1000-500 BCE
300-200 BCE

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(assessment? 100-200 CE
name=45)
200-500 CE
Quiz : Visual
No, the answer is incorrect.
Assignment 1
Score: 0
(assessment?
Accepted Answers:
name=46)
300-200 BCE
Week 1
4) Buddhist architecture before 400 BCE comprised 1 point
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: Introduction to
Stupas
History of
Architecture in Statues of Buddha
India (unit? Both of the above
unit=1&lesson=47)
None of the above
Week 2 No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Week 3 Accepted Answers:
None of the above
Week 4 5) The earliest extant free-standing temple is at Sanchi, known as 1 point

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Temple 30 from the 8th century CE
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Temple 64 from 500 BCE
Virupaksha temple from 200 CE
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Temple 17 from the early 5th century CE

6) A Hindu temple is : 1 point

A shelter for divinity


A model of heaven
A place for cooking
A palace for the king
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
A shelter for divinity

7) Buddhist viharas are: 1 point

Places of community prayer


Residential arrangements for monks
A necropolis
Depictions of the Buddha
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Residential arrangements for monks

8) The Indus Valley Civilisation was known for: 1 point

Brick architecture
Grid-iron planning of streets
Planned drainage system with inspection chambers

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All of the above


No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
All of the above

9) In western India, particularly Gujarat, western Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra, a unique 1 point
type of temple superstructure was the

Kalinga
Shekhari
Bhumija
Phamsana
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Bhumija

10)Mauryan Ashokan columns were inspired by: 1 point

Large trees
Ruins of Persepolis
Mount Meru
Tower of victory
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Ruins of Persepolis

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