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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 father of a Gikuyu family called?
(a) Simba.
(b) Gikoo.
(c) Baba.
(d) Gooyi.

2. What did the Gikuyus consider "white man's magic"?
(a) Money.
(b) Western medicine.
(c) Reading and writing.
(d) Having one wife.

3. What is the weapon of the Gikuyu God?
(a) The teeth of wild African animals.
(b) Lightning.
(c) Sharp rocks.
(d) Torrential rains.

4. What are taught as underlying principles of Gikuyu education?
(a) How to make weapons and pottery.
(b) How to be agriculturists.
(c) Familial relations, living and dead and age groupings.
(d) Tribal legends.

5. Under the Constitution that was drawn up after the Gikuyu people became democratic, what were all young men supposed to be?
(a) Agriculturists.
(b) Elders.
(c) Married.
(d) Warriors.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Gikuyus explain the relation of their tribe with the Europeans?

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

3. What do the Gikuyu call their grandmother?

4. What quote from William James was in the Introduction to the book?

5. What food is used to feed women after childbirth?

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