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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Southern Folk Pottery: The Wilson, Hewell, and Brown Potteries (through page 384).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of glaze is made of silt ashes and sand or powdered glass and water?
(a) New England varnish.
(b) Albany slip.
(c) Shanghai glaze.
(d) Canton glaze.

2. Why do most people pursue folk pottery?
(a) As a business activity.
(b) As a way to relax.
(c) As an artistic or creative endeavor.
(d) As a recreational activity.

3. What change does Eliot Wigginton say in the book's introduction is about to be made to the highway in Mountain City?
(a) It will add another exit and entrance ramp.
(b) The route will be altered to bypass the town.
(c) It will be widened from two lanes to four.
(d) The numerous potholes in it will finally be repaired.

4. What major New York publisher gave the Foxfire organization a publishing contract for two books?
(a) McMillan.
(b) Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.
(c) E. P. Dutton Company.
(d) Harper and Row.

5. What did Carrie Stewart eat for breakfast as a child?
(a) Grits and bacon.
(b) Eggs and biscuits.
(c) Biscuits and gravy.
(d) Cornbread and milk.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Wilsons get churns to sell?

2. What organization does the Foxfire organization plan to house in the log cabin they're restoring?

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

4. In the 1930's in Mountain City, what fruit was grown locally, sorted and boxed at a packing house near the depot?

5. Whose death made Anna Tutt's childhood even more difficult?

(see the answer key)

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