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PASSAGE 3
The Native Americans of northern California were
highly skilled at basketry,
using the
reeds,grasses,
barks,
and
roots
they
found
around
them
to
fashion
articles
of
all
sorts
and sizes-
not only trays, containers,
and cooking pots, but hats, boats, fish traps,
baby
carriers, and
ceremonialobjects.
Of all these experts,
none excelled the
Pomo
—
a
group who
lived
on or near
the
coast
during
the
1800's,
and
whose
descendants
continue
to
live
in
parts
of
the
same
region
to this
day.
They made baskets three feet in diameter and
others no bigger than a thimble.
The
Pomo
people
were
masters
of
decoration.
Some
of
their
baskets
were
completely
covered
with
shell
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pendants;
others
with
feathers
that
made
the
baskets'
surfaces
as
soft
as
the
breasts
of
birds.
Moreover,
the
Pomo
people
made
use
of
more
weaving
techniques
than
did
their
neighbors.
Most groups made all their basketwork
by twining
—
the
twisting of a flexible
horizontal
material,
called
a
weft,
around
stiffer
vertical
strands
of
material,
the
warp.
Others
depended
primarily on
coiling
—
a
process
in
which
a
continuous
coil
of
stiff
material
is
held
in
the
desired
shape
with
tight
wrapping
of
flexible
strands.
Only
the
Pomo
people
used
both
processes
with
equal
ease
and frequency. In addition,
they made use of four distinct variations on the
basic
twining process,
often employing more than
one of them in a single article.
Although a wide variety of
materials was available, the Pomo people used only
a few. The
warp
was
always
made
of
willow,
and
the
most
commonly
used
weft
was
sedge
root,
a
woody
fiber
that
could
easily
be
separated
into
strands
no
thicker
than
a
thread.
For
color,
the Pomo
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people
used
the
bark
of
redbud
for
their
twined
work
and
dyed
bullrush
root
for
black
in
coiled work. Though other materials
were
sometimes used, these
four
were the staples
in
their
finest
basketry.
If
the
basketry
materials
used
by
the
Pomo
people
were
limited,
the
designs
were
amazingly varied. Every
Pomo basketmaker knew how to produce from fifteen
to twenty
distinct
patterns that could be combined in a number of
different ways.
1. What
best distinguished Pomo baskets from baskets of
other groups
(A) The range
of sizes, shapes, and designs
(B) The
unusual geometric
(C) The absence of
decoration
(D) The rare materials used
2. The word
(A) maintain
(B) organize
(C) trade
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(D) create
3. The Pomo people used
each of the following materials to decorate
baskets EXCEPT
(A) shells
(B) feathers
(C) leaves
(D) bark
4.
What is the author's main point in the second
paragraph
(A) The
neighbors of the Pomo people tried to improve on
the Pomo basket weaving
techniques.
(B) The Pomo people were the most
skilled basket weavers in their region.
(C)
The
Pomo
people
learned
their
basket
weaving
techniques
from
other
Native
Americans.
(D) The Pomo
baskets have been handed down for generations.
5. The word
(A) masters
(B) baskets
(C) pendants
(D) surfaces
6. According to the passage , a weft is
a
(A) tool for separating
sedge root
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(B)
process used for coloring baskets
(C)
pliable maternal woven around the warp
(D) pattern used to decorate baskets
7.
According
to
the
passage
,
what
did
the
Pomo
people
use
as
the
warp
in
their
baskets
(A)
bullrush
(B) willow
(C)
sedge
(D) redbud
8. The word
(A)
decoration
(B) shape
(C)
design
(D) object
9. According to the passage . The
relationship between redbud and twining is most
similar to the relationship between
(A) bullrush and coiling
(B) weft and warp
(C)
willow and feathers
(D) sedge and
weaving
10. The word
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