CSET Practice Test On California Indians

coiled ware, were made in many shapes from flat plate styles to nearly perfect spheres. Intricate geometrical and banded patterns were often outlined with brightly colored feathers, plumes, beads, and shells.

A. Cahuilla

B. Pomo

C. Kumeyaay

D. Yokuts

9. Many of their villages were either on lagoons or at the mouths of streams; others were along the lower course of the Klamath River. They placed emphasis on accumulating wealth and

asserting status. The wealthiest members owned multiple sets of dance regalia and served as hosts for ceremonial gatherings. They wore distinctive clothing, such as highly decorative basketry caps, as a means of displaying their wealth. The natural resources of northwestern California were abundant, permitting them to live in permanent, year-round villages. They harvested salmon, sturgeon, eel, surf fish, shellfish, sea lions, deer, elk, and acorns. Dense redwood forests provided them with wood for their split-plank houses, constructed with either single-pitched or double-pitched roofs. Redwood also was used for the manufacture of a variety of household items, such as wooden, stools, storage boxes, and cooking implements, and canoes.

A. Yurok

B. Pomo

C. Maidu

D. Hupa

10. Social rank was calculated almost exclusively upon the basis of wealth. Wealthy families retained their privileged positions by passing on their fortunes from one generation to the next. Their diet consisted mainly of salmon and acorns. Their religious practice included world-renewal