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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of games do the young Gikuyu play?
(a) Singing songs.
(b) Climbing trees.
(c) Pretend fighting and house.
(d) Hide and Go Seek.

2. What did the government of the Gikuyu become eventually?
(a) A communal system.
(b) A dictatorship.
(c) A kingdom ruled by royalty.
(d) A democratic government.

3. How many women are Gikuyu men allowed to marry?
(a) Thirty.
(b) As many as they can support.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Twenty.

4. What is done the day before the circumcision operation?
(a) The head is shaved.
(b) A bracelet with bells is put around the ankle.
(c) Feathers are put in the hair.
(d) The body is painted red and white.

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

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

7. Where do the men, women, and children beat the bushes to chase the evil spirits away?
(a) In the jungle.
(b) Toward Mount Kenya.
(c) Toward the center of the village.
(d) At the river.

8. What is the fourth stage of the marriage arrangements?
(a) Setting a day to sign the marriage contract.
(b) Slaughtering the sheep.
(c) Sending gifts to the bride's parents.
(d) Holding a feast.

9. Where are the strips of the sacrificial animal buried ?
(a) On Mount Kenya.
(b) By the river.
(c) In the gardens.
(d) In crossroads throughout the village.

10. When can the Gikuyu people participate in the government?
(a) After circumcision.
(b) After owning land.
(c) After having children.
(d) After marriage.

11. What do the boy's parents have to collect?
(a) Money for a dowry.
(b) Cattle for a dowry.
(c) Jewelry and food for a gift to the girl's family.
(d) Sheep and goats for a dowry.

12. When a man becomes ill, ________________ are sought.
(a) Medicine men.
(b) Seers.
(c) Elders.
(d) Gikuyu gods.

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

14. How many types of spirituality are there among the Gikuyus?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

15. What do Gikuyus do instead of praying to their ancestral spirits?
(a) Hold a feast in their honor.
(b) Name their children after them.
(c) Give them gitts of respect.
(d) Light a fire on top of Mount Kenya in their honor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the bride do when the husband's relatives come to take her to his hut?

2. What is the Gikuyu word for courtship fondling?

3. How do the mother and the nurse educate the very young?

4. How many men do Gikuyu women usually marry?

5. Why does Kenyatta feel the Gikuyu form of education is better than formal education.

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