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Printmaking Quiz

This quiz covers terminology related to printmaking techniques. It asks students to identify tools used in printmaking like brayers, gouges, and blocks. It also asks students to define printmaking terms like impression, edition, negative space, and more. The quiz concludes with several questions about Adinkra symbols, a system of symbols created by the Ashanti people of Ghana used to represent concepts and aphorisms.

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Printmaking Quiz

This quiz covers terminology related to printmaking techniques. It asks students to identify tools used in printmaking like brayers, gouges, and blocks. It also asks students to define printmaking terms like impression, edition, negative space, and more. The quiz concludes with several questions about Adinkra symbols, a system of symbols created by the Ashanti people of Ghana used to represent concepts and aphorisms.

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Name: __________________________

Printmaking Quiz
1. This tool rolls ink evenly on the block 6. The impression that an artist makes in
a. Bench Hook printmaking is called a
b. Brayer a. Print
c. Brush b. Painting
d. Gouge c. Drawing
2. The area around an object in an image is d. Photograph
called 7. The set of finished, identical prints is
a. Negative Space called
b. Positive Space a. Edition
c. Plus Space b. Impression
d. Extra Space c. Collection
3. In an impression number, the bottom number d. Group
represents 8. This tool is for carving away non-image
a. How many artists’ proofs were made areas from you block
b. How many total prints are in the edition a. Block
c. The number of ink layers in the b. Brayer
impression c. Ink
d. The number that specific print is in the d. Gouge
edition 9. This is the piece of equipment you carve
4. The coloring material used in printmaking is your design into and use it to make an
called impression:
a. Paint a. Block
b. Dye b. Brayer
c. Ink c. Gouge
d. Wax d. Paper
5. This tool is designed to keep your block in 10. This is created when lines meet to
place while carving surround a space:
a. Block Holder a. Form
b. Metal Hook b. Space
c. Bench Hook c. Shape
d. Bench Hanger d. Line
Name: __________________________

11. The trial impression you make to see the 16. What is the name for the system of
current state of your block you’re symbols created by the Ashanti people?
printing from is called a. Calabash
a. Test Proof b. Kente
b. Bon A Tirer c. Adinkra
c. Artist’s Proof d. Proverb
d. Impression Number 17. Where do the Ashanti people originate
12. In an impression number, the top from?
number represents a. Ghana
a. How many artists’ proofs were made b. Algeria
b. How many total prints are in the c. Guinea
edition d. Angola
c. The number of inks used in the 18. The symbols represent
impression a. Ashanti culture
d. The number a specific print is in the b. History of Ghana
edition c. Proverbs
13. The print that is picked by the artist as d. All of the above
the standard by which the rest of the 19. Where are the symbols usually printed?
edition is compared is called a. Paper
a. Trial Proof b. Cloth
b. Bon A Tirer c. Trees
c. Artist’s Proof d. Skin
d. Impression Number 20. Circle the country where this art form
14. A/P stands for: comes from on the map below:
a. Accurate Print
b. Ace Print
c. Albrecht Printmaker
d. Artist’s Proof
15. Bon A Tirer is French for:
a. Good to Print
b. Working Proof
c. Pull the Print
d. Trial Proof

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