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

3. What are the stomach contents of the sacrificial animal mixed with during the harvesting ceremony?
(a) Ground up fish.
(b) Fruit and nuts.
(c) Spices.
(d) Sap of a tree and the bark.

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

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

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

7. What are the young taught?
(a) How to bathe themselves.
(b) How to dress themselves.
(c) The Gikuyu language.
(d) History of the tribe and family traditions.

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

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

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

11. How is the first stage of youth marked in the Gikuyu tribe?
(a) By piercing the outer ear.
(b) By painting the body.
(c) By shaving the head.
(d) By piercing the navel.

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

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

14. What is the circumcision of both sexes regarded as in Gikuyu society?
(a) A time to fight fear.
(b) A necessary ordeal.
(c) The unification of the whole tribe.
(d) Something that should be eventually banned.

15. What do the girls and their sponsors do in the hut on the day of circumcision?
(a) They exchange vows.
(b) They sing a special initiation song.
(c) They dance together.
(d) The girls sit between the legs of their sponsors.