CSET Practice Test On California Indians

same social class.

A. Tongva [Gabrielino]

B. Kumeyaay

C. Yokuts

D. Chumash

3. This tribe shot rabbits and other small game with bows and arrows, or captured them with nets and snares. Women gathered acorns, mesquite pods, piñon nuts, and the fruit of various species of cacti. When water supplies were sufficient, they planted crops of corn, beans, squash, and melons. They made pottery by coiling narrow ropes of clay and smoothing the sides with a rounded stone and wooden paddle.

A. Cahuilla

B. Chumash

C. Kumeyaay

D. Yokuts

4. Their villages were among the largest in California with some 2,000 people. Their homes were made of poles driven into the ground and arched into the center, overlaid with a thatch of interwoven grasses, tules, and ferns. They produced brilliant rock paintings. The extant paintings, found in caves and on rock outcroppings throughout southern California, are almost always abstract in design; even when life forms are depicted they are highly stylized and imaginative.

A. Tongva [Gabrielino]

B. Kumeyaay

C. Yokuts

D. Chumash

5. The San Joaquin Valley once was filled with wetlands and teeming with aquatic birds,