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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy do when he is accepted by the girl for marriage?
(a) He celebrates with his friends.
(b) He sends gifts to the girl's parents.
(c) He sends the girl a bouquet of flowers.
(d) He tells his parents.

2. What was the name of the first governmental group?
(a) Kolugi generation.
(b) Nogami generation .
(c) Ndemi generation.
(d) Gikuyu generation..

3. In what year did members of the new religion clash with police?
(a) 1934
(b) 1932.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1935.

4. What does Kenyatta think the European teacher coming to Africa should do?
(a) Share their knowledge of other subjects.
(b) Set up western schools.
(c) Be circumcised.
(d) Learn the Gikuyu way.

5. Why does Kenyatta feel the Gikuyu form of education is better than formal education.
(a) The child doesn't have to leave the home.
(b) The child isn't exposed to the wrong ideas.
(c) The child is learning all the time.
(d) The child is happier with this kind of education.

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

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

8. How do the Gikuyu children gain physical strength?
(a) Exercises.
(b) Digging in the garden.
(c) Climbing trees.
(d) Dances.

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

10. When do the Gikuyu make sacrifices to their god?
(a) For good health.
(b) Only in dire circumstances and when rain fails to fall.
(c) For fertility.
(d) For a good harvest.

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

12. What is the first stage of Gikuyu courtship?
(a) The boy sings outside the girl's hut in the evening.
(b) The boy sends gifts to the girl's hut.
(c) The boy and his friends visit the home of the girl.
(d) The boy asks the girl's father for her hand in marriage.

13. How do the mother and the nurse educate the very young?
(a) Through lullabies.
(b) With toys.
(c) Through poems.
(d) Through stories.

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

15. For what did the Europeans condemn the Gikuyus?
(a) Circumcision.
(b) Medicine men.
(c) Polygamy.
(d) Magic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the stomach contents of the sacrificial animal mixed with during the harvesting ceremony?

2. What is done to the girl's body prior to surgery?

3. What is the school in the Gikuyu nation?

4. What is a name of the Gikuyu God?

5. What is the circumcision of both sexes regarded as in Gikuyu society?

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