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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 Gikuyu word for courtship fondling?
(a) Gnwinko.
(b) Nogwinka.
(c) Ngweko.
(d) Thingira.

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

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

4. What is done to the girl's body prior to surgery?
(a) It is massaged and adorned with beads.
(b) It is painted with sacred colors.
(c) It is blessed by the medicine man.
(d) It is washed in the mother's hut.

5. How did the Gikuyu lose most of their lands?
(a) Through fighting with the Europeans.
(b) Through selling their land to the Europeans.
(c) Through their magnanimity.
(d) Through deserting their lands and moving southward.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the mother and the nurse educate the very young?

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

4. What is riika?

5. What is the first thing the Gikuyu do when they decide evil spirits have brought illness?

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