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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 the father of a Gikuyu family called?
(a) Gooyi.
(b) Baba.
(c) Simba.
(d) Gikoo.

2. How is the first stage of youth marked in the Gikuyu tribe?
(a) By shaving the head.
(b) By piercing the navel.
(c) By painting the body.
(d) By piercing the outer ear.

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

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

5. What was the condition that the nine men had to agree to if they wanted to marry Gikuyu's daughters?
(a) To undergo an immediate initiation operation.
(b) To go up to the top of Mt. Kenya and pray.
(c) To live under a matriarchal system.
(d) To kill a ram as a sacrifice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the boys and girls do after the location of the surgery is blessed and ancestral spirits appeased?

3. Where is the Gikuyu God supposed to reside?

4. What does a Gikuyu woman call the parcel of land she is allowed to cultivate?

5. In the prophesy of the Gikuyu medicine man, what was the color of the bodies of the men who were to come out of the big water?

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