Describe the Christian community house at Dura-Europas.

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary. Central courtyard with a meeting hall (removing the partition between two rooms) that accommodated about seventy people at a time; it had a raised platform at one end where the congregation leader sat or stood, another room on the opposite side had a canopy-covered font for baptismal rites and upstairs was a communal dining room used for the celebration of the Eucharist.

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The plan of the Carolingian monastery at St. Gall included:

a. a refectory. b. a cloister. c. novitiate housing. d. all of these. e. none of these.

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The performance style heard in this listening example suggests which of the following traditions of psalm singing?

A. performed by the use of lining out B. Regular Singing tradition C. Lutheran chorale hymn singing tradition D. specifically Calvinist written tradition

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What elements are often seen in Auguste Renoir's paintings?

A) ?dancers in the various stages of rehearsal and performance B) ?members of the middle class in leisure-time activities C) ?intimate scenes of domesticity D) ?sensual nudes in landscapes

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Why did Ansel Adams make photographs of national parks?

a. he liked experimenting with non-traditional means b. he didn't like people c. he didn't photograph nature d. to increase public awareness of the beauty of nature

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