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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Southern Folk Pottery: An Appriciation - The Meaders Pottery.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Arie Meaders' retired from pottery, what activity did she start doing?
(a) Quilting.
(b) Baking cookies.
(c) Writing novels.
(d) Crocheting.

2. When did the Meaders family start their pottery operations in White County?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1950.
(c) The mid 1800's.
(d) 1920.

3. What does Bruce Mosley think will help racial relations?
(a) More education.
(b) More blacks in high paying jobs.
(c) More devotion to God in schools.
(d) Teaching children that all races are equal.

4. Why didn't Harvey Penland's father value education and encourage Harvey to pursue his education?
(a) He didn't read and didn't see why Harvey needed to read.
(b) He needed Harvey to help with farm chores.
(c) He had been a slave and didn't value education for blacks.
(d) He thought Harvey could make money working without one.

5. What is the objective of using a kiln?
(a) To help the clay harden.
(b) To purify dirt from the clay.
(c) To kill germs that might be growing in the clay.
(d) To dry the pottery and dry the glaze.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where would Carrie Stewart walk barefoot in the mud as a child?

2. What benefit did Cheever Meaders derive from making his favorite types of pottery?

3. What kind of communities does Eliot Wigginton like?

4. What type of glaze is made of silt ashes and sand or powdered glass and water?

5. What injustices did Harvey Penland see whites commit against blacks?

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