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Question 1: Index to the Catalogue of the SPSL.
Research papers and correspondence relating to his first job in a British university can be found at the ________ Special Collections but are as yet uncatalogued.
University of BirminghamBirmingham City UniversityUniversity of WarwickAston University

Question 2: He studied ________ at the Universities of Leipzig, Munich, Berlin, and Frankfurt/Main, completing a PhD in 1924 on the baroque merchant houses of Leipzig.
Western art historyArt historyTurkish artGerman art

Question 3: "A bicycle shed is a building; ________ is a piece of architecture.
Durham CathedralSt Albans CathedralLincoln CathedralExeter Cathedral

Question 4:
A substantial collection of his papers is held at the Pevsner archive in the ________, Los Angeles.
Getty FoundationGetty Research InstituteJ. Paul GettyGetty Conservation Institute

Question 5: He also completed for ________ the Pelican paperback An Outline of European Architecture which he had begun to develop while in internment.
Penguin BooksPearson PLCE. P. DuttonPearson Education

Question 6: During this period he became interested in modernist architecture after visits to the ________ in Dessau and Le Corbusier's Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau at the Paris Exhibition of 1925.
ExpressionismBauhausDe StijlArt Nouveau

Question 7: The son of a Jewish fur trader, Nikolaus Pevsner was born in ________, Saxony.
BerlinDresdenChemnitzLeipzig

Question 8: [5]

In 1942 Pevsner was also appointed a part-time lecturer at ________; he would eventually retire from the college in 1969 as its first professor of art history.
Queen Mary, University of LondonKing's College LondonSchool of Oriental and African StudiesBirkbeck, University of London

Question 9: He is best known for his 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The ________ (1951–74).
Colin McWilliamNikolaus PevsnerEdward HubbardPevsner Architectural Guides

Question 10: Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, CBE, (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-born British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of ________.
EuropeItalyArchitectureArchitectural theory
















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