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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the father teach his son about plants and roots?
(a) Which ones have magic power.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Which ones are poisonous.
(d) The names and uses.

2. What does Kenyatta fear about western education?
(a) Religious teaching.
(b) Western subjects.
(c) Individualistic teaching.
(d) Foreign languages.

3. How many oaths control the court proceedings of the Gikuyu?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

4. What is the first thing the Gikuyu do when they decide evil spirits have brought illness?
(a) Make a sacrifice to their god.
(b) Choose a night to fight the evil spirits.
(c) Ask the medicine man for a spell.
(d) Pray to their god.

5. At what age is the first stage of Gikuyu youth marked?
(a) Six or seven years old.
(b) Four or five years old.
(c) Three or four years old.
(d) Eight years old.

6. At what age is a Gikuyu child circumcised?
(a) Twelve or thirteen.
(b) Fifteen or sixteen.
(c) Seventeen or eighteen.
(d) Fourteen.

7. When does a junior warrior become a senior warrior?
(a) After he make his own weapons.
(b) After he marries more than five women.
(c) After he takes part in a battle.
(d) Twelve rain seasons after his weapons are blessed.

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

9. How does a Gikuyu marriage come about?
(a) The Gikuyu men choose their brides.
(b) Men and women choose their own mates.
(c) The marriages are arranged by the parents.
(d) The marriages are arranged by Gikuyu elders.

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

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

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

13. What serves as churches for the Gikuyu?
(a) The river.
(b) Sacred huts.
(c) Sacred trees.
(d) Sacred groves.

14. When the man has a hut suitable for his wife what happens?
(a) He begins furnishing it.
(b) The bride is taken to his hut by his female relatives.
(c) He takes her to the hut himself.
(d) He builds the sacred fire in the middle of the hut.

15. What animal is sacrificed to the Gikuyu god?
(a) A lamb.
(b) A goat.
(c) A cow.
(d) A kid.

Short Answer Questions

1. When can the Gikuyu people participate in the government?

2. For what did the Europeans condemn the Gikuyus?

3. What is the weapon of the Gikuyu God?

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

5. What is the sound of the Gikuyu's God's movement?

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