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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are taught as underlying principles of Gikuyu education?
(a) Familial relations, living and dead and age groupings.
(b) How to be agriculturists.
(c) How to make weapons and pottery.
(d) Tribal legends.

3. When an animal is to be sacrificed to God, where is the ceremony held?
(a) In the woman's hut.
(b) In a clearing in the jungle.
(c) On the top of Mount Kenya.
(d) At a sacred tree.

4. What was the first ruler of the Gikuyu people like?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Benevolent.
(c) Tyrannical.
(d) Beloved by the people.

5. When can the Gikuyu people participate in the government?
(a) After owning land.
(b) After marriage.
(c) After circumcision.
(d) After having children.

6. How many wives do Gikuyu men usually have?
(a) Around sixteen.
(b) Around ten.
(c) Around twenty-five.
(d) Around fifteen.

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

8. Why does Kenyatta feel the Gikuyu form of education is better than formal education.
(a) The child is happier with this kind of education.
(b) The child doesn't have to leave the home.
(c) The child isn't exposed to the wrong ideas.
(d) The child is learning all the time.

9. In what manner is the sacrificial animal killed?
(a) Throat cut.
(b) Strangled.
(c) Pierced with an arrow.
(d) Hung.

10. What does the boy do when he is accepted by the girl for marriage?
(a) He sends the girl a bouquet of flowers.
(b) He celebrates with his friends.
(c) He tells his parents.
(d) He sends gifts to the girl's parents.

11. How many oaths control the court proceedings of the Gikuyu?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

12. What is the school in the Gikuyu nation?
(a) The outdoors.
(b) Mt. Kenya.
(c) A special hut.
(d) The home.

13. How many types of spirituality are there among the Gikuyus?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

14. When a man becomes ill, ________________ are sought.
(a) Seers.
(b) Gikuyu gods.
(c) Medicine men.
(d) Elders.

15. When is the piercing of the child's lobe done?
(a) A few years after the piercing of the outer ear.
(b) At seventeen years old.
(c) At twenty years old.
(d) At fifteen years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. What musical instruments are used to chase away evil spirits?

2. When do the Gikuyu make sacrifices to their god?

3. To what or whom does an elder recite a prayer at the planting ceremony?

4. Who plants the seeds in the Gikuyu society?

5. What do the fathers teach their young sons?

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