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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 is a moherega?
(a) Hunter.
(b) Gikuyu clan.
(c) Gikuyu of the warrior class.
(d) Farmer.

2. For what did the Europeans condemn the Gikuyus?
(a) Magic.
(b) Circumcision.
(c) Polygamy.
(d) Medicine men.

3. What is a name of the Gikuyu God?
(a) Baloo.
(b) Ngai.
(c) Bogai.
(d) Lunai.

4. From whom did the Gikuyu buy land when they moved southward?
(a) The pygmies.
(b) The Watusi.
(c) The Ndorobo.
(d) The Masai.

5. What was the name of Gikuyu's wife?
(a) Mikuji.
(b) Moombi.
(c) Mombooli.
(d) Malinbi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the fathers teach their young sons?

2. What does Kenyatta think the European teacher coming to Africa should do?

3. How is the first stage of youth marked in the Gikuyu tribe?

4. Where are the strips of the sacrificial animal buried ?

5. Under what kind of tree did Gikuyu and his family find nine young men to marry Gikuyu's daughters?

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