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Pottery!

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are ceramic pots made of?

a)

Paper

b)

Pencil Shavings

c)

Clay

d)

Pickles

2.

How do you make clay pots? (Select all that apply)

a)

Kicking the clay until it forms a pot

b)

Using a pottery wheel

c)

Using The Force

d)

Using your hands

3.

How hard is it to make something out of clay?

a)

HARD

b)

Super Easy

c)

Whatever

d)

It depends on the person and what they are doing

4.

What covers clay to make it smooth and shiny?

a)

Melted Plastic Wrap

b)

Clear slime

c)

Glaze

d)

Who knows

5.

What is the known "Death Grip" when making a pot? (select all that apply)

a)

The Crab Claws of Death

b)

The Horns of the Devil

c)

The Death Grip

d)

I don't know and don't care

6.

When hand-building things out of clay it is important to make sure you...

a)

Put glaze on it

b)

Put clear slime on it

c)

Pile the clay on, the more the better!

d)

Slip and score it

7.

When hand-building always make sure you...

a)

Make sure you put your sculpture on a bat

b)

Never drop your sculpture on the ground

c)

Sign the bottom of your sculpture

d)

All of the above

8.

How do you know when your bat is about to come off of your wheel?

a)

It starts flinging clay everywhere

b)

You pet pickle tells you

c)

It just come flying off

d)

It makes an awful rattling noise

9.

Traditional Japanese pottery takes how long to fire?

a)

1 Week

b)

34 Days

c)

1 Day

d)

34 Hours

10.

Approximately how old is the oldest known pottery to date?

a)

2,000 years old

b)

200 years old

c)

20,000 years old

d)

I invented it so how dare you suggest that someone else made it and not me

11.

Which emperor was the emperor of China who made the terracotta warriors?

a)

Tongzhi

b)

Qin Shi Huang

c)

Xianfeng

d)

Me! Afterall I am my own emperor!

12.

What is a term used by potter's when the clay is kind-of hard but still moldable?

a)

Skin Tough

b)

Leather Hard

c)

Feathery Soft

d)

There is no term potter's use that describes that?

13.

What is it called when you are making something on the wheel?

a)

Throwing

b)

Spinning

c)

Batting

d)

There is no term for this?

14.

Clay is a natural material

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Clay is a form of art

a)

True

b)

False