SUBJECT: BASKETRY

CLASS: 2V1 SECTION B(60 Marks)

Answer Four (4) Questions only.
1. (a) What is digital Art?(3 marks)
(b) Explain four (4) ways computer is used
as a tool in basketry (12 marks)
2. (a) What is basketry?(3 marks)
(b) Discuss four socio - economic
importance of basketry in the society
(12marks)
3. How does basketry play its role in
religious activities. Raise only three points.
(15 marks).
4. Illustrate in details the following tools
used in basketry:
(a) Measuring Tape (b) Scissors (c) Awl (15
marks)
5. Illustrate the plantain plant in details and
indicate the part that is used as basketry
material (15 marks)
6.(a) Explain the term weaving in basketry.
(3marks)
(b) List three materials which could be
used for weaving (6 marks)
(c) List six items which could be produced
by weaving (6 marks)
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION b. Grasping ideas
SECTION A (40 MARKS) c. Correcting poor work
1. The surface appearance of a basketry d. Mixing dyes
article either visual or tactile refers to its:
6. In creating a wok, the artist is governed
a. Design by:
b. Texture a. Design
c. Perspective b. Materials
d. Aesthetics c. Form
2. To prevent rusting, metal tools should be: d. Craftsmanship
a. Exposed 7. The secondary colours are:
b. Washed a. Red, blue, green
b. Orange, green, yellow
c. Oiled
c. Green, Orange, violet
d. Sharpened.
d. Pink, green, violet.
3. A different material sewn onto a basketry
article is called: 8. Basketry is studied in Ghanaian schools
because:
a. Applique
a. Basketry is new to Ghanaians
b. Embroidery
b. Basketry is the best subject
c. Addition
c. Students like basketry
d. Attachment.
d. Basketry materials are available in every
4. Symbols are very important in Ghanaian
part of the country.
society because:
9. Basketry is regarded as the oldest art
a. They identify the people
form because:
b. They honour the ancestors
a. Oldest pottery items have basket marks
c. Many people admire them on them

d. Many people cannot read b. People put their items in baskets

5. Which of these is not visual thinking c. Basketry items are needed in the home
process:
d. People like basketry
a. Electing materials
10. Early human beings needed basketry to:
a. Develop their country b. Blue and Red
b. Protect their gods c. Blue and Pink
c. Feed their animals d. Blue and Yellow
d. Satisfy their basic needs 16. A three dimensional item refers to an
item which could be viewed from:
11.Basketry items include the following
except: a. Two angles
a. Bracelets b. One angles
b. Mat c. Four angles
c. Footwear d. All angles
d. Bed sheet 17. Basketry materials have all the following
characteristics except:
12. Enyeresi is noted for which basketry
material: a. Slate
A. Sisal b. Tough
b. Palm c. Soft
c. Bamboo d. Thin
d. Rattan Cane. 18. Basketry materials could be preserved
through one o the following:
13. The colour yellow symbolizes:
a. Washing b. Soaking c. Salting d.
a. Riches
Smoking
b. Boldness
19. Which of the following is a basketry
c. Vitality technique?

d. Old age a. Blasting

14. The colour blue is associated with: b. Braiding

a. Cotton c. Scraping

b. Ripe mango d. Splitting

c. Sky 20. Oil palm is also known as:

d. Stars a. Elaeis guineensis

15. The colour green is the mixture of: b. Raphia hooker

a. Yellow and Red c. Eremospatta Macrocarpa

d. Laccosperma Opacum d. Cat’s tail
21.The basketry materials which could be 26. Beads could be made from plastic,
used in addition to the main materials are stones, glass and
called:
a. Metal
a. Conventional materials
b. Sand
b. Complementary materials
c. Leaves
c. Additional materials
d. Colours
d. Basketry materials
27. The local dyes could be prepare from:
22. Fan palm is also known as:
a. Leather
a. Date palm
b. Shells
b. Oil palm
c. cowries
c. Coconut palm
d. Tree barks
d. Desert palm.
28. Wearing to bend the spokes of a basket
23. The basketry material that has culm is: upright is terminal
a. Coconut. a. wailing b. upsetting c. fitching d. pairing
b. Cane 29. The outer or top edge of a basket is
termed
c. Bamboo
a. slew
d. Grass
b. base
24. Calabash is a:
. foot
a. Complimentary material
d. rim
b. Conventional material
30. The raised borders worked under the
c. Suitable material
base of baskets are
d. Soft material
a. bases
25. All the following materials are from the
b . feet
animal sources except:
c. foots
a. Feathers
d. rims
b. Shells
31. When an artist weaves with only one
c. Goat skin weaver he is ? a. randing
b. pairing a. bye- stakes
c. twining b. borders
d. slewing c. weavers
32………….. is a row of two or more weavers d. bases
worked together alternately as the
37. The term stakes in basketry stands for
a. rand the
b. pair a. bottom of the basket
c. slew b. upright canes around which weaving is
done
d. twin
c. top edge of basket
33. The basketry technique in which an
artist winds rods into rings or loops is called d. the raised border of a basket
a. plaiting 38. The flat bottom of a basket is called
b. oiling a. spine
c. looping b. seat
d. knotting c. base
34. A knotting technique commonly used in d. foot
macramé art is
39. The tool used in basketry for squeezing
a. square knot stakes is
b. triangle knot a. bodkin b. pliers c. shears d. knife
c. circle knot 40. What process will be required to
strengthen the edges of a basket?
d. rectangle knot
a. randing b. slewing c. fitching d. knotting
35. Interlacing by passing rods alternately,
below and above other rods is
a. coiling
b. plaiting
c. looping
d. weaving
36. The finer strips woven round the stakes
of a basket are called