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7. You can figure out that
a. the Neolithic age was the most important period in history
b. people like making pottery containers

c. insects, chicken, and mice are pests
d. the potter’s wheel was the most important invention ever

8. Which of these does not tell a fact?

a. The potter’s wheel was made late in the Neolithic age.
b. People keep and store dried foods in pots.
c. Pottery that is entirely made by hand is the best.
d. Pots are containers that can hold liquid.

9. This was written mainly to
a. inform people about the best type of pottery in the Neolithic period
b. explain the development of pottery in the Neolithic period
c. describe different kinds of pottery that developed

d. convince readers that the potter’s wheel considerably changed pottery

10. The word latter tells you about
a. something that happened before

b. something that happened after
c. something that happened earlier
d. something that happened at the same time

True or False

Check “T” for true and “F” for false.

1. The potter’s wheel helped to make shaping pottery T F

easier and faster.

2. Pottery is a craft developed in the Paleolithic age. T F

3. Pots were also used for cooking and storing grain. T F

4. Pottery provided containers for hauling water and T F

storing oil.

5. Pottery is a craft. T F

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