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ALABAMA FOLK POTTERY- January 22, 2021, Friday

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Folk potters made jugs with anthropomorphic qualities. What does anthropomorphic mean?

a)

Having the appearance of an insect, like an ant.

b)

Having human characteristics

c)

Looking like a fierce animal.

d)

None of the above.

2.

Towns that became centers for pottery production were called by what name?

a)

Clay repositories

b)

Town of jugs

c)

Juglerville

d)

Jug Town

3.

Which town, listed below, was called a jug town, in the assigned article?

a)

Gardendale

b)

Birmingham

c)

Tuscaloosa

d)

Gadsden

4.

A potter, in looking for a place to work his trade would locate near...

a)

running water.

b)

a large city.

c)

a clay deposit.

d)

a farming community.

5.

Stoneware pottery is fired at a temperature of...

a)

2,500 degrees

b)

2,000 degrees

c)

1,500 degrees.

d)

1,000 degrees

6.

One stoneware tradition was to glaze pottery by a process called...

a)

Salt glazing

b)

Gloss glazing

c)

Pickled glazing

d)

Low fire glazing

7.

A second stoneware glazing tradition was called...

a)

alkaline glazing.

b)

High fire glazing

c)

Groundhog firing glazing.

d)

Pit firing glazing

8.

Lime or wood ash was the ingredient used for which glazing tradition of folk potters?

a)

Alkaline glazing.

b)

Salt glazing.

9.

What mode of transportation opened up new innovations of pottery that impacted the folk potter's business?

a)

Large freight trucks

b)

Clipper ships

c)

railways

d)

airlines

10.

What jug brought the highest price to the folk potter?

a)

Face jug.

b)

Crock pot.

c)

Butter churn.

d)

Flower pot.

11.

True or False.

The age of electrification reduced the need for pottery as a means of food preservation.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

What is the name of the Alabama folk potter you read about, Thursday, January 21, 2021.

a)

Bob Green

b)

Wilber Smith

c)

Jerry Brown

d)

Sam Williams

13.

True or False

Traditional folk pottery, in the mid-twentieth-century, transitioned into an art form of folk art.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

The traditional folk potter sold his ware by what means?

a)

by the gallon.

b)

by the weight.

c)

by the color.

d)

by the height.

15.

By what means did, Jerry Brown, turn his pug mill?

a)

By a horse.

b)

By a mule.

c)

By a tractor.

d)

By an electric motor.

16.

True or False

Jerry Brown no longer digs his own clay.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

What pottery piece of Jerry Brown sells for the most money?

a)

Face jug.

b)

Coffee mug

c)

Butter churn

d)

Putcher

18.

Jerry Brown, has five pieces of folk pottery in which museum?

a)

Guggenheim

b)

Smithsonian

c)

Mary Harden Museum of Art

d)

Museum of Chicago

19.

Which method of making pottery does Jerry Brown use?

a)

Pottery Wheel.

b)

Coil Method.

c)

Slab Method.

d)

Pinch Method.

20.

Pottery's main purpose has always been...

a)

Utilitarian

b)

Useful

c)

functional

d)

All the above