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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Religion and Ancestor Worship and The New Religion in East Africa.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kenyatta think the European teacher coming to Africa should do?
(a) Be circumcised.
(b) Set up western schools.
(c) Learn the Gikuyu way.
(d) Share their knowledge of other subjects.

2. What is the first thing the Gikuyu do when they decide evil spirits have brought illness?
(a) Choose a night to fight the evil spirits.
(b) Ask the medicine man for a spell.
(c) Pray to their god.
(d) Make a sacrifice to their god.

3. Where was the resting place of the Divider of the Universe, the creator of the Gikuyu tribe?
(a) Mt. Kenya.
(b) In the jungles of Kenya.
(c) Mt. Kilimanjaro.
(d) Beside Victoria Falls.

4. What are the stomach contents of the sacrificial animal mixed with during the harvesting ceremony?
(a) Fruit and nuts.
(b) Sap of a tree and the bark.
(c) Spices.
(d) Ground up fish.

5. What do the boys and girls do after the location of the surgery is blessed and ancestral spirits appeased?
(a) They dance in a circle.
(b) They go to the same tree.
(c) They eat a special food.
(d) They kneel and pray to their ancestors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of games do the young Gikuyu play?

2. What is a moherega?

3. In what manner is the sacrificial animal killed?

4. What does the father teach his son about plants and roots?

5. What were the people who lived in the forests called?

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