Facing Mount Kenya; the Tribal Life of Gikuyu Test | Final Test - Easy

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Facing Mount Kenya; the Tribal Life of Gikuyu Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many women are Gikuyu men allowed to marry?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) As many as they can support.
(d) Thirty.

3. Where is the Gikuyu God supposed to reside?
(a) Mt. Kilimanjaro.
(b) Lake Victoria.
(c) Victoria Falls.
(d) Mt. Kenya.

4. What is the Gikuyu word for courtship fondling?
(a) Gnwinko.
(b) Nogwinka.
(c) Ngweko.
(d) Thingira.

5. What do the girls and their sponsors do in the hut on the day of circumcision?
(a) They dance together.
(b) The girls sit between the legs of their sponsors.
(c) They exchange vows.
(d) They sing a special initiation song.

6. On what day is the woman admitted into the husband's clan?
(a) The nineth.
(b) The eighth.
(c) The seventh.
(d) The sixth.

7. What does Kenyatta fear western education will do to the Gikuyu society?
(a) Be the downfall of the structure of the clan.
(b) Give Gikuyus an inferiority complex.
(c) Tempt them to leave Kenya and go abroad.
(d) Turn them against their ancestors.

8. How do the Gikuyu people finally kill the evil spirits?
(a) Burn them.
(b) Suffocate them.
(c) Strangle them.
(d) Drown them.

9. To what does Kenyatta attribute the rise of different religions?
(a) To the fact the Gikuyus were tired of their religion.
(b) To the economic distress in Gikuyu land.
(c) To the Gikuyus losing faith in their god.
(d) To the Europeans disregarding African religious beliefs

10. What is the sound of the Gikuyu's God's movement?
(a) Rustling trees.
(b) Mighty wind.
(c) Rushing river water.
(d) Thunder,.

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

12. What is the fourth stage of the marriage arrangements?
(a) Setting a day to sign the marriage contract.
(b) Sending gifts to the bride's parents.
(c) Slaughtering the sheep.
(d) Holding a feast.

13. What animal is sacrificed to the Gikuyu god?
(a) A lamb.
(b) A goat.
(c) A kid.
(d) A cow.

14. When is a man initiated into the council of peace?
(a) When a man owns his own hut and land.
(b) When a man is 50 years old.
(c) When a man has a child to be circumcised.
(d) When a man marries.

15. 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) Make a sacrifice to their god.
(d) Pray to their god.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the mother and the nurse educate the very young?

2. How many men do Gikuyu women usually marry?

3. What does a man pay when he is initiated into the religious and sacrificial council?

4. What are the stomach contents of the sacrificial animal mixed with during the harvesting ceremony?

5. When is the piercing of the child's lobe done?

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