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[ Paragraph 1] An extremely important and long-standing industry in ancient Greece was the ceramics industry, giving rise to the huge number of pieces of pottery archaeologists and historians pore over. In reality, pottery production can almost be seen as a combination of a natural resources -based economy and a production-based economy, as the primary material-good clay-was a result of the natural geology. However, not all city-states made equal use of their clay resources, and only two-Corinth and Athens-were really active in pottery export in the Archaic Age (750 -500 BC) and following.

1. According to paragraph 1, which of the following is true of Greek pottery?

A. Pottery was produced only in Corinth and Athens because they were the only areas with the necessary clay resources

B. The huge number of pottery pieces surviving today ind icates that many city-states all over ancient Greece produced pottery for export.

C. Pottery production in Greece was made possible by the good natural resources of that area

D. Pottery was not really an important industry in ancient Greece because so few city-states were active in it.

[ Paragraph 2] As with weaving, pottery no doubt began as, and in many places remained, a household industry, probably practiced exclusively in the summer when the clay and kindling wood were drier and easier to t ransport and burn But evidence of a more concentrated effort at production for export appeared already in the Bronze Age (3000-1 100 B c.) and continued in the Dark Ages (1100-800 B c ), as with the copious export of Euboean scyphi (drinking cups) to such locations in the Mediterranean as Cyprus, the Levant, and even Italy. These were followed by the Corinthian cups and scyphi, and finally the Athenian kylix (a shallow type of wine goblet). The demand for Greek vessels to drink out of appears to have stemmed from a desire for Greek things to drink, and amphorae and pithoi (storage vessels), especially from Attica, also proliferated in the Mediterranean.

2. The word "exclusively" in the passage is closest in meaning to

A. rarely

B. only

C. especially

D. typically

3. According to paragraph 2, weaving and pottery in ancient Greece were similar in which of the fo llowing ways?

A. Both originally took place in individual households rather than commercial workshops

B. were probably practiced only during the summer months.

C. Both produced goods that were used only in the houses in which they were made.

D. Both produced goods for export from as early as the Bronze and Dark Ages.

4. The word "copious" in the passage is closest in meaning to

A. abundant

B. occasional

C. profitable

D. combined

[ Paragraph 3 ] This need for commercial production led to the rise of workshops and factories. Such workshops were usually family-owned businesses run by the head of the household, his sons (and possibly daughters), and, depending on the size of the industry, additional servants and/or slaves. The general assumption concerning many professional potters is that they were not citizens of the cities in which they worked. In Athens, these were the metics, or resident aliens, as well as slaves. The identity of the workers in the primary ceramic working area in Corinth-the Potters' Quarter-is uncertain. But an inscribed pottery shard naming the Phoenician goddess Astarte suggests that there were Phoenician immigrants (from what is now Leba non) working there, or at least a heavy Phoenician influence.

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