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

2. How old was Burlon Craig when he was first offered a share in a pottery business?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Fifty.

3. What ingredient in clay makes the pottery turn red during the firing process?
(a) Glass.
(b) Iron.
(c) Flint.
(d) Copper.

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

5. When did Harvey Penland see whites and blacks treated in the same manner?
(a) He has never seen equal treatment of blacks and whites.
(b) When he fought World War I in Europe.
(c) In a church.
(d) At a hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What change does Eliot Wigginton say in the book's introduction is about to be made to the highway in Mountain City?

2. What is the only kind of pottery Chester Wilson can't turn?

3. Why don't Mountain City residents want to build something that would draw increased tourists to their community?

4. Why did Bruce Mosley's grandmother have to raise him?

5. What was Viola Lenoir's educational level?

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