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Kilns can fire up to 2345 degrees fahrenheit
False
True
2
Ceramics ware that has gone through the first firing at a relatively low temperature.
bisque
bone dry
plastic
3
How can you make coils?
Slam wedging
Roll out by hand or use an extruder
Mixing water with bone dry clay
Use a slab roller
4
Why do we glaze our ceramic pieces?
To make it waterproof
All of these
To make it stronger
To make it finished and colorful
5
What tool do you use to score
needle tool or a comb
finger nails
water
wooden rib
6
These textures were probably made by...
someone with very small fingers.
carefully carving into the clay.
using a variety of stamps.
a sharp object such as a needle.
7
This is a fettling knife
False
True
8
What tool is this?
wire cutter
loop tool
pulley
putty knife
9
A term for liquid clay, that acts like glue in ceramics?
Clay
Water
Slop
Slip
10
This is the machine that changes the clay from clay to ceramics
Flim
Box
Heater
Kiln
11
What tool is this?
bone
Rib
Scaper
Hip
12
You glaze ceramics in what stage of clay?
Greenware
Leatherhard
Bisqueware
Glazeware
13
______________ clay that we use for molding, modeling, and throwing on the wheel.
Leatherhard
Slip
Bisqueware
Wet
14
What is Wedgeing?
Pushing the clay to remove air bubbles
Scraping the clay on both sides when combining 2 pieces together
Pushing clay back and forth to combine 2 pieces of clay together
Rolling the clay out into coils for building
15
What is slip trailing?
Drawing with a needle tool
Drawing on the surface of clay with slip using a fine-tipped dispenser
Creating clay coils and making designs on clay
using an inkpen to draw on a clay surface
16
What tool is this
metal rib
wiggle wire
wire cutter
shredder/rasp
17
Which of these is not a handbuilding technique
coil
throw
pinch
slab
18
Which of the following is NOT true about glaze
It is ok to eat ceramic glaze
Glaze is dangerous in powder form.
Shake glaze first
Keep 1/4 away from the bottom
19
A handbuilding method in which the artist uses their fingers to shape a bowl
sculpture
pinch
coil
slab
20
Wax resist is painting underglaze or slip with a brush in a loose manner to give different effects
False
True
21
What is the process of recycling clay called?
redoing
reworking
washing
reclaiming
22
Mishima/ Inlay is filling incised lines with colored slip or underglaze
False
True
23
What tool do you use to create a slabs?
Clay Board
Rolling Pin
Mallet
Slab Maker
24
What type of clay fires to an orange red color
terra cotta clay
buff clay
porcelain clay
ball clay
25
Should clay go down the sink?
Never!!!!
Yes!!!!!
only if it's dry clay
Of course, always
26
You can apply glaze to plastic clay.
True
False
27
What are the 4 main steps to throwing a pot on the potter wheel
smoosh, pull, smash, dash
slip, score, wedge, slap
center, open, pull, form
trim, hook, spin, water
28
What should you clean after a class of handbuilding?
my shoes
only my tools
tools, table, and the floor around me
only my table
29
Clay that has not been fired.
None of these
Bisque
Greenware
Glazeware
30
Do you glaze the bottom of your pots or tiles?
Yes
NO!
Yes
Yes
31
How many coats of glaze should you apply?
3
4
1
2
32
What is Sgraffito
Using a sponge to apply underglaze to create a gradient of color
Painting white on black pottery
Carving a clay surface, through layers of underglaze or colored slip
dipping a pot in glaze
33
When throwing on the pottery wheel, it is important to tie long hair back for safety reasons.
True
False
34
What does it mean to bevel?
to dance
to cut at an angle
to roll
to coil
35
What are the handbuilding techniques?
Pinch
All of these
Coil
Slab
36
This is a rasp
True
False
37
How do you make a slab?
Throwing it in the air and twirling in like a pizza man.
By rolling the clay into a rope like figure.
By wedging and flattening out with your hands/rolling pin.
By slapping the clay like it stole something.
38
Carving a design into clay by cutting or scraping into the surface is called incising
True
False
39
When finished wheel throwing, what should you do?
Nothing the teacher should clean up after me.
Clean the bat, tools, the splash bins, and the wheel.
Clean only the bat, my tools and myself.
None of the above are correct.
40
When throwing pottery on the wheel, what is the first step?
Make a straight cylinder
Center the mound of clay
Find the bottom of the pot
Put a hole in the center
41
How do you attach two pieces of clay together?
slap and wedge
scratch and sniff
throw them together
score and slip
42
What tool is this?
Sgraffito tool
Needle tool
Large loop tool
Lace tool
43
Burnishing is...
wedging your clay into a spiral
Applying wax to leather-hard clay and then applying underglaze
rubbing leather-hard clay with a stone or rib to create a glossy surface.
cutting or tearing paper shapes
44
Throwing is
a decrease in size due to firing
making ware on the potter’s wheel
the oven used to fire ceramic ware
45
what large tool is in the picture?
printing press
clay extruder
press mold
slab roller
46
What is this tool?
metal rib
half circle tool
half circle
needle tool
47
Ceramics cannot be too solid or thick. Why?
it will dry unevenly
all of these
it will crack
it will explode in the kiln
