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True arches were built with interlocking blocks called voussoirs and fitted with:

AKeystones
BPendentives
CSquinches
DBrackets
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Correct answer: A. Keystones
1. Arches could then bear the weight of domes. 2. Keystones locked the voussoirs. 3. Domes rested on pendentives and squinches. _Source: syllabus An Introduction to Indian Art, Chapter 8, Some Aspects of Indo-Islamic Architecture._
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