Traveling Tokens Unit Quiz

This pottery studio founder mass-produced these small tokens depicting anti-slavery imagery and slogans. These tokens were widely circulated and helped raise public attention to the cause of abolition and the injustices of slavery.

• Tom Maringer
• Josiah Wedgwood

• Syd Carpenter
• George R.R. Martin

We sculpted the prototype for our tokens using...

• Porcelain Clay
• Stoneware Clay
• Oil Based Clay

A ________________________ is an indentation or protrusion in a shape that will prevent its withdrawal from a one-piece mold

• Undercut
• Overcut
• Overlap
• Under pin

In class, we watched a video about the Shire Post Mint. What does the Shire Post Mint manufacture?

• jewelry
• toys
• fantasy coins and currency
• books

How many clay tokens should you have pressed from your plaster mold?

• 5
• 3
• 7
• 9

Which artist created the Places of Our Own series, based on African American gardens and farms?

• Josiah Wedgwood
• Tom Maringer
• George R.R. Martin
• Syd Carpenter

Clay is fired in a...

• Kiln
• Kilm

We will paint two of our tokens with _________________, a special paint for clay that contains silica, that will create a glassy surface on the clay after it is fired.

• watercolor
• acrylic
• glaze
• glass

The first firing that the clay goes through is called a ______________________ firing.

• bisque
• dry
• first
• clay

The material that we used to make our molds is called...

• plastic
• marshmallow fluff
• plaster
• plasticine