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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 key to the life of the Gikuyu?
(a) Magic.
(b) Warfare practices.
(c) Land tenure.
(d) Ceremonies.

2. 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) At a sacred tree.
(d) In the woman's hut.

3. What has become the attitude of modern social science?
(a) "Going out into the world is all-important."
(b) "Tolerance is all-important."
(c) "Anthropology begins at home."
(d) "Know thyself."

4. What is the mother's brother called?
(a) Unka.
(b) Loopi.
(c) Mama.
(d) Oono.

5. What was the short name of the famous medicine man of the Gikuyu who prophesied the coming of Europeans with guns?
(a) Giku.
(b) Wama.
(c) Mogo.
(d) Luku.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal is sacrificed to the Gikuyu god?

2. How many partitions are in the male Gikuyu's hut?

3. What did the government of the Gikuyu become eventually?

4. When the man has a hut suitable for his wife what happens?

5. To what or whom does an elder recite a prayer at the planting ceremony?

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