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

2. What do the boys and girls do after the location of the surgery is blessed and ancestral spirits appeased?
(a) They eat a special food.
(b) They go to the same tree.
(c) They kneel and pray to their ancestors.
(d) They dance in a circle.

3. In what year did members of the new religion clash with police?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1934
(c) 1935.
(d) 1932.

4. How does one say my or our mother in Gikuyu?
(a) Maito.
(b) Mooli.
(c) Maba.
(d) Moobi.

5. What is done the day before the circumcision operation?
(a) The body is painted red and white.
(b) The head is shaved.
(c) Feathers are put in the hair.
(d) A bracelet with bells is put around the ankle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Kenyatta feel the Gikuyu form of education is better than formal education.

2. What is the circumcision of both sexes regarded as in Gikuyu society?

3. What is the weapon of the Gikuyu God?

4. What were the Gikuyus made to know by the Europeans?

5. What was the name of the chief who entered into a treaty with the Europeans and was then deported and died on his way to the coast?

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