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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. When is a Gikuyu man initiated into the religious and sacrificial council?
(a) When he becomes an elder.
(b) When two of his daughters marry.
(c) When three of his sons become warriors.
(d) When his wife is past child-bearing age.

2. From whom did the Gikuyu buy grain?
(a) The Wakamba.
(b) The Gumba.
(c) The Watusi.
(d) The Masai.

3. Where was the resting place of the Divider of the Universe, the creator of the Gikuyu tribe?
(a) Mt. Kilimanjaro.
(b) Mt. Kenya.
(c) Beside Victoria Falls.
(d) In the jungles of Kenya.

4. What does the bride do when the husband's relatives come to take her to his hut?
(a) She pretends to struggle against them.
(b) She hugs them.
(c) She sings to them.
(d) She gives them flowers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which class helped Mr. Kenyatta become an excellent ethnographer?

2. To what does Kenyatta attribute the rise of different religions?

3. What is the busiest time for the majority of the women?

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

5. When is the piercing of the child's lobe done?

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