The One Important Requirement Often Missing from These Church Interiors

question 67

Multiple Choice

The one important requirement often missing from these church interiors is light.Which of the following did not allow for interior lighting?

• A) Barrel-vaults exerted great outward thrust making a clerestory difficult to construct.
• B) Light was not considered an important spiritual ingredient for church services.
• C) The massive walls would not support a tribune and clerestory.
• D) It was considered too expensive to fund the construction of a clerestory.

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Definitions:

Guttman Scale

A scale that contains either favourable or unfavourable statements arranged hierarchically. Agreement with a strong statement implies agreement with weaker ones; disagreement with a weak one implies disagreement with stronger ones.

Cumulative Items

The accumulation or sum of items over a period.

Unidimensionality

A Guttman scale consists of a single (low to high) dimension. It is also cumulative; that is, agreement with the highest-scoring item implies agreement with all lower-scoring items.

Bogus Pipeline Technique

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