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

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

3. What kind of games do the young Gikuyu play?
(a) Singing songs.
(b) Climbing trees.
(c) Pretend fighting and house.
(d) Hide and Go Seek.

4. How did the Gikuyus explain the relation of their tribe with the Europeans?
(a) With the story of a fox and a man.
(b) With a story about a Rhinoceros and a man.
(c) With a story about an elephant and a man.
(d) With a story about a lion with a man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the weapon of the Gikuyu God?

2. When the Europeans first came to Gikuyuland, how did the Gikuyu regard them?

3. What is the school in the Gikuyu nation?

4. How did the medicine man refer to the railway coming to Africa?

5. What was the founder of the Gikuyu tribe called?

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