Earthenware, pottery that has not been fired to the point of vitrification and is thus slightly porous and coarser than stoneware and porcelain. The body can be covered completely or decorated with slip (a liquid clay mixture applied before firing), or it can be glazed. For both practical and decorative reasons, earthenware is usually glazed. To overcome its porosity (which makes it impracticable for storing liquids in its unglazed state, for example), the fired object is covered with finely ground glass powder suspended in water and is then fired a second time. During the firing, the fine particles covering the surface fuse into an amorphous, glasslike layer, sealing the pores of the clay body. There are two main types of glazed earthenware. One is covered with a transparent lead glaze; when the earthenware body to which this glaze is applied has a cream color, the product is called cream ware. The second type, covered with an opaque white tin glaze, is variously called tin-enameled, or tin-glazed, earthenware, majolica,, faience,or delft.Crude, soft, and excavated earthware at a Neolithic settlement at Catalhuyuk, on the Anatolian Plateau of Turkey, and thought to be about 9000 years old, is the earliest known pottery. Earthenware is still widely used in the 21st century, much of the commercially produced ware being heatproof and cold proof and thus practicable for cooking and freezing as well as for serving.

1. Earthenware is
A. Pottery
B. Porcelain
C. Stoneware
D. Vitrivication

2. The following are earthenware’s feature, EXCEPT
A. Porous enough
B. Rough
C. Glazed
D. Impractical

3. What is the difference between earthenwase and
stoneware or porcelain?
A. Eartware is more rough
B. Stoneware or porcelain porous
C. Earthware is fired
D. Earthware is covered by glass powder.

4. what is the benefit of ground glass powder?
A. To stop porosity in the fired object
B. To make storing liquids
C. To make it impractical
D. To cover it

5. What is cream ware ?
A. cream color which covers earthenware body
B. transparent lead glaze
C. glazed earthenware
D. earthenware body

6. The word “excavated” in line 14 is closest in meaning to ____ .
A. earth removed C. impressed
B. amazed D. good

7. What does paragraph 2 mainly discuss ?
A. The use earthenware in the past eras C. The production of earthenware in the past eras
B. The history of earthenware D. The different use of earthenware