When a large hall is built using post-and-lintel construction methods, the resulting "virtual forest of columns" is called a:
A. nave.
B. barrel vault.
C. hypostyle hall.
D. groin vault.
E. portico.
C
The term hypostyle comes from the Greek for "beneath columns."
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