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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 are the young taught?
(a) How to dress themselves.
(b) How to bathe themselves.
(c) The Gikuyu language.
(d) History of the tribe and family traditions.

2. What is the circumcision of both sexes regarded as in Gikuyu society?
(a) A time to fight fear.
(b) The unification of the whole tribe.
(c) Something that should be eventually banned.
(d) A necessary ordeal.

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

4. How do the Gikuyu children gain physical strength?
(a) Exercises.
(b) Climbing trees.
(c) Dances.
(d) Digging in the garden.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what did the Europeans condemn the Gikuyus?

2. What was the name of Gikuyu's wife?

3. What is the school in the Gikuyu nation?

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

5. What do the Gikuyu call their grandmother?

(see the answer key)

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