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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 do the fathers teach their young sons?
(a) How to fish.
(b) How to build a hut.
(c) How to weed and use a digging stick.
(d) How to fight with the Gikuyu weapons.

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

3. When an animal is to be sacrificed to God, where is the ceremony held?
(a) In a clearing in the jungle.
(b) On the top of Mount Kenya.
(c) At a sacred tree.
(d) In the woman's hut.

4. In what manner is the sacrificial animal killed?
(a) Hung.
(b) Throat cut.
(c) Strangled.
(d) Pierced with an arrow.

5. How did the medicine man refer to the railway coming to Africa?
(a) The big noise.
(b) The iron snake.
(c) The iron dragon.
(d) The steel caterpillar.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Gikuyu lose most of their lands?

2. When does a junior warrior become a senior warrior?

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

4. What does the father teach his son about plants and roots?

5. What did the Gikuyus consider "white man's magic"?

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